The two soldiers jerked their rifles away and stepped back. They stood with their leader. Gazing down. McGrath lifted his head and seemed wildly around. Pulled on the ropes, and then realized he used to be only pulling the knots tighter. The three guys stepped farther lower back and glanced up at the sky. McGrath realized they had been making certain the cameras got an uninterrupted view.
THE CAMERAS WERE getting an uninterrupted view. Seven miles in the sky, the pilots had been flying circles, one on a tight radius of a few miles, the other outside him on a wider path. Their cameras had been trained downward, below the relentless manage of their computers. The inside airplane was once focusing tight on the clearing the place McGrath used to be spread-eagled. The outer digital camera was
