Perfect Victim (2008)
“Strapped into a tattered, rickety contour chair behind the flight deck, his notebook open on his lap, he bided his time by nervously doodling sketches of the Archetype—that bulbous black demonic silhouette from his class, now sprouting horns and forked tail in his imagination—while the pilot in front of him, a middle-aged female captain named Villalobos, snapped her chewing gum and casually flipped switches.The C-17 Globemaster was the workhorse of the Air Force, designed to carry troops or hum...anitarian aid across long distances. This one had been to Afghanistan, then Iraq, then back to the states for FEMA duty. Grove could sense the cavernous, empty cargo hold stretching behind him like the belly of a whale, creaking and echoing with every bump or gust of headwind. The ghosts of long-forgotten paratroopers and war-wounded kids lurked back there. Grove tried to focus on the clock.They crossed the southern-tier states in record time, climbing to thirty thousand feet over Alabama in order to avoid a spring storm, then coursing westward over the patchwork cotton fields of Mississippi at 400 knots.MoreLess
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