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Everyone was tired, as was to be expected of people who had been woken in the middle of the night, and not confident of success, given the circumstances. They were determined to do their job, and do it to the best of their abilities, though.
A pair of patrol cars and the armed response team’s van were positioned so they blocked the dirt road that ran through the woods alongside the Brant. If their target was where the mystery caller had told Nathan he was, they didn’t want him able to escape, not by car, escape on foot was something they couldn’t prevent; the size of the woods that lay on either side of the river, and encircled the Roman ruins by the picnic area, made it impossible for anything short of a full-blown army with overhead surveillance to secure the area completely.
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