The Quest: a Novel
“Off to his right front, he could see Shoan about ten kilometers away. He banked right and began descending, saying to his passengers, “I want Colonel Gann to know we are on the way.”
As they got lower and closer, Mercado leaned forward with his binoculars. “I don’t see the vehicle.”
Purcell replied, “We don’t know if that vehicle had anything to do with Gann.”
Purcell flew over the village at four hundred feet and tipped his wings.
Mercado said, “I saw someone waving.”
“Did he have a mustache a...nd a riding crop?”
“He was wearing a white shamma… but it could have been him.”
“Going native.”
They flew over the spa, then Purcell banked right, to the area east of the single-lane road where most of their photographs had been taken of the jungle and rain forests that lay between Lake Tana and the area around the destroyed fortress—an area that Purcell estimated at more than a thousand square miles.
Vivian had the large-scale maps on her lap, and Purcell asked her to hold up the one of the area below.MoreLess
As they got lower and closer, Mercado leaned forward with his binoculars. “I don’t see the vehicle.”
Purcell replied, “We don’t know if that vehicle had anything to do with Gann.”
Purcell flew over the village at four hundred feet and tipped his wings.
Mercado said, “I saw someone waving.”
“Did he have a mustache a...nd a riding crop?”
“He was wearing a white shamma… but it could have been him.”
“Going native.”
They flew over the spa, then Purcell banked right, to the area east of the single-lane road where most of their photographs had been taken of the jungle and rain forests that lay between Lake Tana and the area around the destroyed fortress—an area that Purcell estimated at more than a thousand square miles.
Vivian had the large-scale maps on her lap, and Purcell asked her to hold up the one of the area below.MoreLess
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