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Senior Constable Greg King cursed aloud as he struggled with the final stages of replacing a badly shredded tyre on the Toyota. The vehicle model was a Land Cruiser Troop Carrier with a longer wheelbase than the standard Land Cruiser, fitted with bench seats along each side of the cargo area behind the driver’s seat. It had a carrying capacity of eight comfortably, ten at a push; two in the front bucket seats, and four along each side in the rear.
It was not a police vehicle; they were rapidly running out of those. Sarah Collins, Russell Foley, and Sam Rose, had taken one of the station vehicles, and with the unserviceable vehicle out at the cave, it left only one vehicle for station use.
King had to commandeer the Land Cruiser from the local service station proprietor who, although
