CHAPTER 15
“Everything’s in place sir,” said Group Captain Donald Forbes.
He and Charles Macklin were once again seated across the desk from Douglas Ryan, who’d asked Forbes for an update on the plan they’d devised the previous night. Forbes went on:
“You just need to say the word, and I can have a team of Infantrymen in place within two hours. They’ll seal off the only roads in and out of the village and institute constant patrols of the village boundaries to prevent unauthorised entry into Olney. A second team will maintain the ten-mile exclusion zone you specified, giving us a double barrier against possible external penetration of our designated perimeter. I also have a medical team standing by who can be flown by helicopter to the village and could be in the field within an hour of
