Chapter Eighteen
“We’re changing it up,” Gordon announced at the airfield. “Tham Chau, you’re with Vanessa. I want the two of you hunting the thermite traps. Their placement through the jungle is very linear and the spacing is relatively predictable. Tham Chau, get your ground teams ahead of the fire and track those down. I want them disabled, cleaned up. Use encrypted radios only. I don’t want whoever is out there doing this to know we’re onto them.”
They rushed off together.
“Mark, you’re with Vern; you’re the oversight and protection for them. Fight the fire where you can, but your top priority is their safety.”
Mark thumped Gordon once hard on the shoulder. No words were necessary. Gordon could feel that he finally had a lead on this fire, one that even Mark hadn’t seen—though ther
