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Within ten minutes, the Gulfstream G650 was heading for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. At a top speed of 610 miles per hour, we were going to be over our target within three and a half hours.
I knew it was going to be the longest three and a half hours of my life.
Johnny ran through the details during our flight. “Eve was right, we’re going to have to go out the aft baggage area. We can access it from inside the plane, so we’re good.”
“Why can’t we just go out the door?” I asked.
“Don’t want to get sucked into the engines,” Johnny explained. “Or bash your head on the wing and get knocked out.”
“Oh.”
“Do we have intel on the boat?” Leo asked. “I mean, what are we looking at here?”
“Eve?” I said.
The television monitor in front of us lit up with white letters on a back background. She had commandeered the plane’s internet connection long before we took off.
It’s a custom-built mega-yacht, 300 feet in length. I’m keeping track of it via satellite – you’ll be able to parachute within a half mile of the location.
“What about specs – layout, decks, engine room?” Johnny asked.
The screen flashed with picture after picture of boat blueprints. Got them from the manufacturer. Wait – hold on –
“What is it?” I asked.
Hold on, I’m trying something.
There was no answer from her for almost ten minutes. We went back to discussing the mission until the following text appeared:
Okay, I’m back. Miranda’s guys have a communication link via satellite. I snuck in.
“Fuckin’ A,” Leo said, impressed – as were the rest of us.
“Anything useful?” I asked.
Want to see their entire surveillance system?
“Hell yeah!” Johnny whooped.
Twelve small rectangles appeared onscreen, each with a shot of a different place on the ship. The bridge, the engine room, hallways, exterior walkways, and more.
“Holy shit, this is fantastic,” Johnny said, getting right on the edge of his seat and watching the camera angles like a hawk. “I’m counting six guys at least, including the captain there – ”
“Seven,” Leo said, pointing at a pair of boots in the background of one shot.
“AR-15s and side arms. Glocks, probably,” Juan said.
“So at least seven, maybe more,” Johnny said. “One on the bridge, one in the engine room, one on the starboard side walkway, two on the – ”
“What about Lily?” I interrupted as I scanned the screen. “Where’s Lily and Sebastian?”
“And Miranda,” Johnny pointed out. “She’s not on here.”
I don’t see them anywhere,Eve typed. But I’m guessing they’re here.
The camera angles flickered out, and the boat blueprints reappeared – only now there was a bright red circle around a room towards the front of the boat.
