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“Is that scrag here or not?” Holly couldn’t keep her nerves at bay.
“She’s here.” Tom had reported that Major Elayne Kasprak was aboard when he’d closed the door. He’d been out there purposely waiting for her.
But now they’d climbed all the way to cruising altitude without a peep. What devilry was the woman up to?
Tim had taken the navigator’s seat and was handling Russian air traffic control like an old hand.
She sat copilot to Jon’s right, so her back was to the cockpit’s door.
Jon talked her through the few things that he needed her to reach, and somehow they’d gotten aloft.
They still had to cross the entire width of Russia, pretend to crash, and sneak out of Russian airspace without anyone noticing.
And they still had to deal with Elayne.
Holly didn’t dare to go hunting a
