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Kee and Archie crawled back to the upper edge of the ditch. She checked on Dog One and Dog Two in the scope. The fuel truck had pulled away. They were climbing the ladders on either side of the plane. They sat side by side in their jet. A pair of crewmen pulled the ladders away.
That cockpit worried her. She’d be trying to penetrate the canopy at an awfully long distance. The bullets might be so spent by the time they reached the jet that they’d bounce off the glass instead of punching through. But she had an image in her head and hoped that the desert heat was on her side.
The area behind the jet shimmered as they started the engines. A wave of heat ripples rolled back from the jet’s twin exhaust cowlings. In moments they were rolling toward the far end of the runway.
And they were
