Cold Highway by Stone Mary & Berdel Donna

Author:Stone, Mary & Berdel, Donna [Stone, Mary & Berdel, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, Mystery
Amazon: B086Q29Y8N
Goodreads: 53498137
Publisher: Mary Stone Publishing
Published: 2020-04-09T07:00:00+00:00

15

Ellie waited as Clay used his access card to open the door to the ACTeam building. He stepped out of the way so she could pass through ahead of him, and she stopped halfway into the room, her lips parting. The office they’d entered was in an enclosed balcony, but it wasn’t the machines and computers filling the small space that had her in awe. It was the massive area below, which was bustling with activity.

“This is not what I was expecting at all.” Enthralled by more than a dozen investigators in navy blue coveralls moving about the truck, Ellie went to the window to get a better view. “The building didn’t look this large from the outside.”

The day was full of surprises, one being the ease of which they’d learned Lucky’s real name. Matt Loomis. It sounded too plain, too innocent. How could a man named Matt kill women and dump their bodies out like trash?

“Most of this is underground.”

“It reminds me of an airport hangar for private planes.”

“That’s basically what this part of the building is, though the design has been modified to fit our needs. Without windows and completely contained, we can reduce the possibility of outside contaminants interfering with our crime scene. In this case, the tractor portion of Lucky’s semitruck. We also have top of the line equipment, including the Mobile Vehicle Scanner.”

He pointed at one of the crime scene techs, who was standing on the platform of a machine, eyes on a screen, using controls to move slowly around the parked semi.

Ellie was having a surge of technology envy. “Wow.”

He grinned. “The MVS uses noninvasive x-ray technology to scan the vehicle for explosives, money, drugs, or even humans. The machine can detect something as small as an individual cigarette.”

“Humans?”

He nodded, his face grim as he turned to her. “Ship ports use a machine like this to check metal containers for illegally trafficked humans before they are moved from the ship to flatbed trailers. Hundreds of people arrive here every year in containers shipped from places like China, and without adequate air, we often don’t find them until it’s too late. Now that ports of entry have the technology to check dozens of containers in a very short period of time, we’ve been able to save countless lives and prevent the people inside from being sold as indentured servants or worse.”

Ellie closed her eyes at the horror of a scene she could only imagine. “The things people will do to each other for money.”

“Exactly.” He cleared his throat, turning back to the scene below them. “In this instance, the machine will not only save us from tripping a booby trap, but as the tech passes around the truck, the MVS creates a 3D picture, which lets us look inside before we even open the door.”

“Good. That will help us build a diagram for court when we nail this guy.” She watched the tech for a moment and wrinkled her nose. “The only problem is Jake, from the wrecking yard.

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