“Come, we go now,” Vasco urged them, and Bryant and Pearce dutifully followed in the guide"s footsteps, Beatriz remaining behind to guard the helicopter, against what, Arty could only fantasise. An army of rampaging pit vipers perhaps?
* * *
“Look,” said Pearce, after twenty minutes of trekking through the almost impenetrable forest. Bryant had already silently blessed the fact they had Vasco with them to guide them to the village. Without him, he estimated they"d have been hopelessly lost within two minutes of setting off from the clearing.
Bryant"s eyes followed Pearce"s pointing finger until they landed on what could only have been the site where the bodies of Armand and Angelique Colbert and their guide had been discovered. Obviously, the clearing where they"d landed was used as a s
