Chapter 98
Evening News: First Look" Jul 28 § Miles Underwood, fugitive at large, sank to one knee and watched a helicopter fly south, well beyond him, where it stopped, hovering over something of interest. After a while, the chopper gained altitude and flew back north. A half hour later, he had to go to ground as the same aircraft, or one just like it, came by and stopped south and a little east of where he hid. Miles was betting they'd dropped off ground searchers; it was what he would have done had he been in charge. Two teams had been planted across a narrow neck in the valley where they might be able to intercept him as he fled south. Where there were two, he had to expect more. The way south was blocked. With impassable mountains to the east prohibiting movement in that direction, the only
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