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You are five miles out of Benson when you notice in your driving mirror a cloud of dust rising in the distance. You tell Kate and she turns around to take a look.

‘Clan scouts, a pack of them,’ she reports. ‘Looks like twenty bikes, but they’re not on their own. They’re tailin’ a car. Well, I think it’s a car—it’s got four wheels.’ She continues to stare into the distance for several minutes; then she says: ‘I don’t like the look of it, Cal. Let’s not hang around to say hi to these dudes, OK?’

You respond by flooring the gas pedal until the roadster’s speedometer registers 100 miles an hour. ‘The pack’s dropping back,’ shouts Kate, her voice barely audible above the noise of the rushing wind. ‘But that car is gaining on us.’

You are speeding over a girder bridge, across a water-course known locally as the Pantano Wash, when you see the car in your mirror. It is black and bullet-shaped, with an enclosed driver’s compartment and a roaring lion’s head emblazoned on the hood. It accelerates to within twenty yards of your trunk, and you catch sight of the driver’s snarling face. A shiver runs down your spine when you recognize the manic features of Mad Dog Michigan.

Kate draws her pistol, but before she can take aim, you hear a burst of heavy machine gun fire and see muzzle flashes erupting from the front of Mad Dog’s speedster. The heavy-calibre rounds slam into your trunk, and the force of their impact at high speed sends your roadster careering into a skid.

Pick a number from the Random Number Table and add to it your Driving skill total.

If your total score is now 6 or less, turn to 41.

If it is 7–10, turn to 161.

If it is 11 or more, turn to 321.