Ch. 18Toto LeBlanc had been completely wrong footed when Mainwaring had the audacity to abandon the Explorer helicopter at Shinglehead, and choose the far riskier option of travelling the route south by road with his brigands. It forced a quick rethink; he ordered Weeny south with the Puma and the Harrier as moral support, in a bid to wrench Marty and the Chief Super from the clutches of Pelops and his Colombian partner-in-crime aboard the Bonita Virago.
Fortunately, Leblanc’s foresight in planting a tracker under the lapel of Dixie’s leather coat had proved doubly rewarding. When it became clear she was on the move, his secretive means of locating her had provided a simple means for him to figure out exactly what were Mainwaring’s getaway plans. And, it was to be hoped, to allow him to m
