Novak raised his rifle to his shoulder instinctively, to fire on the man, but the colonel charged him, knocking him to one side as he fired. The bullet missed its mark.
Petrice hauled on the controls and the Oryx rose again into the air. Ten metres off the ground she banked viciously to port in an aggressive move that almost had the rotor tips scraping on the dirt. Novak slid out of the cargo hatch and landed hard in the bare dirt of the abandoned quarry site a few metres below.
Heinrich, Henri and Kevin were running back to the shelter of the Land Cruiser, away from the crazily jinking aircraft dancing above them.
Kobus was frantically trying to regain control of the aircraft, but all he was succeeding in doing was overcorrecting Petrice’s manoeuvres, which made the ride even rougher f
