Chapter 16
The military airport Lager Lechfeld was near Augsburg some 100 km northwest to Munich. Fighter-bombers used to be stationed there, and today AM400 transporters were.
Ritter chased the Porsche along the A96 and because it was still the middle of the night, he was in Lechfeld in 45 minutes. He parked the Porsche with the engine cracking hot and ran to the jet. The pilots were already ready for takeoff and a few minutes later they were in the air.
Immediately after they landed in Calvi, Corsica, Ritter jumped into the waiting Iveco van of the French gendarmerie. Capitan Paul Durand greeted him. The van drove off immediately. The special unit of the French police, comparable to those of the S.W.A.T units of the Americans, was on the road with light tactical combat suits and appr
