The takeoff from Teterboro Airport had been a smooth, breathtaking ascent through the rain-soaked clouds over the New York metropolitan area. Within eight minutes, the Gulfstream G700 had pierced the cloud ceiling at twenty-four thousand feet, leveling out into the crystal-clear darkness of the upper troposphere. Below the aircraft, the sprawling carpet of lights that was Manhattan, Long Island, and the Connecticut coastline gradually receded into the black abyss of…
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