Brian Sadler Archaeology 02 - Ancient by Bill Thompson

Author:Bill Thompson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Ascendente Books
Published: 2016-07-23T23:00:00+00:00

By daybreak the five men had been in the car for hours, much of it on back roads but now on a paved two-lane highway. They were in an old Land Rover, its roof piled high with gear. The man with the mustache was in the right front seat as the other man drove. Sam, Alfredo and Brian were in the back. The man had taken their phones and thrown them out the window as they traveled and he had made two very brief phone calls, speaking quietly and rapidly in Spanish.

“He’s checking in with someone,” Alfredo translated, talking under his breath to Brian and Sam.

Their captor had said almost nothing to them since the trip began. Finally he turned to the back seat. “I will tell you a few things now. You may call me Tomas. Tomas Rodriguez. That name is as good as any, I think. It is my usual nom de plume.” He laughed heartily. “Mr. Sadler, I hope you don’t mind if I call you Brian now. We are going to be associates, even if we are not friends.

“I am going to help you. And in return you are going to help me. Of course it will be important for you to know that your girlfriend is always safe. To make that happen I will be in contact every few hours with someone who wants to hear from me very much. In fact if I fail to make a call for any reason, Miss Farber will no longer be safe. Quite the contrary, in fact. She is deep in the jungle in a place where there are many predators, including the human ones.” He smiled again. “She must be protected. My regular telephone calls are her lifeline. Do you understand?”

“I got it, you son of a bitch. I don’t know what you think you’re doing but you’ll never get away with it. I can get you money if that’s what this is about. A lot of money. Is that what you want from us?”

“Where are we going?” Sam Adams asked. “Don’t you know people will be looking for us everywhere?”

“So many questions, my friends. Brian, this is not about money although eventually I believe what my friends and I want from you will bring untold riches. And Mr. Adams, of course people are going to look for you. Each of you has friends and family whom I am sure care about you very much. And the police – they will certainly be looking too although I’m afraid they are not as diligent as your police in America. They may look for a time then maybe they will hear a rumor. Maybe a story about how you three men just wanted to disappear for a while. Maybe a fling on the beach on a remote caye. A macho man thing, you know?” He smiled.

“Where we are going there are no people who will come looking for you. We are going to find something my friends and I want very much.

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