Tuesday morning the team met to finalize their plan for catching the hijackers. Although the hijackers could have struck that night, or one of the following two, they didn’t, so it would take a week before they found out if the plan would work.
“Got one,” Ben heard over the transmitter the following Tuesday, as he sat in the parking lot of the diner where he had a partial view of the side of the building. The hijacker relayed the license plate and DOT numbers to his cohorts. Ben did the same to Zach, then, as he waited to be picked up, he saw the man scramble down the fire escape, getting to the bottom at the same time that a dark sedan came to a stop a few feet away. He jumped in and the sedan took off, heading, Ben was certain, to the highway entrance two blocks away.
“Took you long en
