darkness off the side of the road, due to a cloud-filled night sky.  The soldiers at each end of the road had erected bright lighting around their barricades, and this had made the road itself more visible.  Their dash from the cars to the fence on the other side of the street would leave them exposed! 

Drake paused at the rear bumper of the old Land Rover and peered hesitantly around it at the nearest barricade, less than twenty five meters away.  He counted five soldiers standing guard there; two were facing away from them.  The three that were watching Main Road were doing so with nonchalance, talking and chatting to each other jovially.  As he looked in the opposite direction, Drake could see that the other barricade was a good two hundred meters away, just a distant glow of lig...

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