Due to Pete's sharp shooting, they enjoy a hearty supper, during which Henry leads the others in reciting The Lord's Prayer. Joe organizes the men to create a signal fire, while Henry and Pete gather food and the women prepare to cook it. He then reveals that he has Crimp's gun, but willingly gives it to Bill to help keep the peace. When Ellis complains that Bill is taking control, Vasquel, who has remained the calmest, points out that by law, the pilot is the highest-ranking member of the group. Bill announces that they are so far off course that search planes will likely not be able to find them. In the morning, the storm has cleared and the group surveys the damage, including the broken engine and destroyed radio. After an engine fails, Bill manages a crash landing with minimal additional damage. Maria spots Tommy wandering toward the door and as she rushes to save him, the air pressure from the open door sucks her out of the plane. Joe is forced to knock out Crimp to restrain him, but soon after another canister slams through the cabin door, tearing it off its hinges. As the passengers grow increasingly nervous, a canister of compressed air bursts into flame, causing Crimp to panic and pull out his gun. A storm soon arises, and although Bill struggles to avoid it, the plane cannot fly high enough to skirt the driving rain. As Vasquel describes their grisly methods for shrinking heads, Crimp reads aloud the news of Malone's death, causing Tommy to wonder where his daddy is. Soon, Vasquel arrives in the care of Crimp, a brash bounty hunter who takes Pete's gun from him "for safekeeping." In the air, as Joe wonders what the sweet-natured Louise sees in Ellis, Henry and Vasquel converse about the Javaro Indians, headhunters who live in the jungles over which they are flying. Upon learning that the plane will not take off on time, Ellis confronts Bill, who admits that they are awaiting Vasquel, a murderer who is to be executed in Boca Grande. Irritated by Rena's awareness of his drinking, Bill roughly informs her that she would be better off staying in San Dimas rather than falling under Sophie's grasp. Spurned by Louise, Rena approaches Bill at the bar. There, Pete leaves Tommy unattended, prompting first Louise and then Rena to fuss over him. The plane flies to San Dimas, California, where everyone settles into the airport for a long layover.
When he reads a newspaper report that Malone has been murdered, however, he realizes that Tommy is now an orphan, and races back to the plane to join him. Pete, who resents "playing nursemaid" to a small boy, leaves Tommy in Maria's care. Joe is concerned about Bill's apparent dishevelment, but stewardess Maria Alvarez assures him that Bill is a competent war hero who has fallen on low times. The plane stops in Panama, where they are to be joined by Jud Ellis, his fiancée Louise Milhorne, and pilots Bill Larnegan and Joe Brooks. Malone, to safeguard his young son Tommy in Boca Grande until he can join them. On her South American bound plane are retired professor Henry Spanger and his wife Martha, and Pete Boswick, who has been ordered by his mobster boss, Thomas J.
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This is a series I cannot recommend enough’ - C.E.Rena, a prostitute who has used illegal identity papers to travel from Austria to Las Vegas, is rejected by her boss, who sends her to Sophie Raditz in Boca Grande, South America. ‘Filled with action, adventure, magic, love, danger and hope.
What they choose to do with the Scytale could change Urte forever. And while the armies of East and West clash in ever-more-bloody conflict, emperors, inquisitors and assassins hunt the Scytale of Corineus, the key to ultimate power, which is in the hands of the most unlikely guardians: failed mage Alaron and market-girl Ramita, pregnant widow of the world’s greatest mage. For Ramon, trapped behind enemy lines, it is one more obstacle in his desperate attempt to get his men safely home. For the Queen of Javon, it is a beacon as she seeks new ways to overthrow her usurper husband and reclaim the country for her brother. For Elena and Kazim, the victory is a call to arms against the renegade spymaster Gurvon Gyle. In the wake of a devastating battle, everything has changed: the East is rising, bringing equal measures of hope and despair to Urte. Emperor Constant’s crusade is teetering on the edge of disaster. The third in David Hair’s epic Moontide Quartet, perfect for fans of Brandon Sanderson, George R.R.