A Fortune in Blood: A Florida Action Adventure Novel (Scott Jarvis Private Investigator Book 7) by Scott Cook

Author:Scott Cook [Cook, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spindrift Press
Published: 2020-08-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

“Do you think we’ll have to leave the country?” Missy asked as she guided our captured Jeep from Juan’s farm toward her house.

I sighed, “I hope not. If my suspicions are right, then your kidnapping was to get Clay. And further, if my suspicions of whose behind it are right… then we should be able to resolve this definitively.”

She glanced over at me, “You really believe Miles Palmer is the… I don’t’ know… Goldfinger in all of this?”

“More like Blofeld,” I joked. “I think that maybe Palmer or his wife are behind the scenes, but our most immediate problem is this Garcia. Tell me about him.”

“He treated us pretty well,” Missy replied. “They didn’t try to abuse us. I was strip searched by female members of his group, but the kids were only patted down. Garcia himself seemed… at least partly decent.”

I gave her an expectant look.

“He seemed genuinely interested in helping his people. When I got pissed and said that he didn’t know what it was like to have his children captured, he got very angry. Damn near wrenched my neck.”

My eyes widened, “Whoa!”

She grinned, “I flattened his nose. Told him that I could’ve shoved his nose up into his braincase and killed him right then and there. He seemed impressed by my strength of will.”

I don’t doubt that,” I said with a smile.

“Thing is… he told me his youngest daughter was gang raped by Nicaraguan soldiers and then shot. His son was killed while serving in the army and his wife was taken by the same men who’d murdered his daughter.”

“Jesus…”

“Yeah,” She said glumly. “Pretty harsh. So if I had to guess, I’d say he’s sincere.”

I thought on that for a moment, “Okay, so Garcia wants to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. But he’s just a poor native. He manages to put together a rag tag group of maybe sixty or seventy people, at least that I saw… not nearly enough. So he needs a few things.”

“Money,” Missy offered.

“Palmer or his wife,” I said. “He also needs a professional soldier.”

“Clay,” She said with a frown.

“Exactly,” I said. “Let’s look at the facts. One: Clay is former Force Recon. Yeah, he’s been out for twenty years, but a Marine is always a Marine. Two, a friend of his happens to be a filthy rich guy with a big business.”

“Uh-huh… I see where you’re going.”

“Three: Miles and Andrea are locked into a power struggle over the business. He started it, so he feels it’s his. She made it what it is, so she feels it’s hers.”

“Four,” Missy added, “their divorce puts her at a disadvantage, I’d guess.”

I nodded, “Right. So according to Miles, Andrea wants to back the Nicaraguan rebels so that when they succeed, she gets permission to build the full-scale El Cuidad Verde.”

“Kind of makes a good case,” Missy admitted.

“On the surface of it’ I stated. “But one of the men who attacked the project yesterday was carrying her business card. I know a red herring when I see one, and that one stinks like it was left on the dock in the sun all day.

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