Chapter 81
Can't you get people up there and have them ... uh, drop down until they're just above the house?" he inquired. "He can't shoot at them then, can he?" The Marshal held the phone away from his ear and looked at it incredulously for a long moment. He couldn't see Brady pointing to a spot on the photo but the reference by the politician was clear. "Sir, that cliff is so nearly absolutely vertical as makes no difference," he continued. "It's a good four or five hundred feet straight up to the rim. They don't make ropes long enough for our guys to rappel down that face and even if they could, anyone who did would still be stuck like a fly on a wall if he decided to come out shooting. "There's nowhere for them to come down except right in plain view of the house and I don't think Underwood's a
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