![]() He flicked a switch and glanced at the display. ![]() The Cessna had been equipped with a thermal intensifier, similar to the sort used in American spy satellites. He pressed down on the joystick and the plane veered to the right, circling over the forests and mangrove swamps that surrounded the old, abandoned airport at the bottom end of the island. ![]() The main airport was farther north, outside the capital of Santiago. Over to the west, he made out the twinkling lights of Puerto Madre, the island’s second-biggest town. The sea around it, which had been an extraordinary, brilliant blue until a few minutes ago, had suddenly darkened, as if someone had thrown a switch. There it was, stretching out before him, twenty-five miles long and six miles across at its widest point. And tonight he would have preferred to have been going almost anywhere else. ![]() “authorities were less vigilant during a storm. ![]()
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