Deadly Little Lies by Jeanne Adams

Author:Jeanne Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2011-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

Niko eased the truck up to the hidden gate at the dig site. Everything was quiet and he motioned Sam to open the gate.

“Stay alert,” he warned as he, too, got out of the Jeep, covering his man as Sam dragged the iron gate open, hooking the lock into the ring of the post.

“No worries, compadre,” Sam muttered, backwalking to the passenger side door. The two men eased into their seats and Niko let off the brake and slowly proceeded through the gate and down the rough track to the camp.

“Niko!” Sam exclaimed, pointing to a rise of vultures from the edge of the trees where a front sentry would have been posted.

“This is not good.” They found the first of their team at the edge of the woods. What was left of him after the animals and birds had been at him, that is.

The rest of the team lay where they had fallen. The clouds of birds and insects surrounding the bodies were a noisy testament to the dreadful manner of their deaths and the speed with which the jungle reclaimed everything.

Walking slowly, and covering one another’s backs, Niko and Sam reached the pit. Niko turned over Carlos’s body and peered down into the dark hole.

“Davros? Are you down there?”

Nothing answered him. Their presence had scared the vultures into the trees, but the birds were still there, lurking noisily, waiting to resume their feasting.

“Look.” Sam pointed down into the hole as he spoke. “There’s no one in there.”

“Do you think they escaped?” Niko examined the ground around the grate, noting the delicate feminine footprints that only pointed toward the grate, not away from it.

Sam shook his head in the negative. “Nah, one way in, just like you wanted.”

“Apparently not,” Niko said, spotting the doorway. “They found a way out.” He scanned the jungle. “This was an ambush, Sam, but whoever it was didn’t come for Dav. They just killed the team. They didn’t even come into the camp.”

“Agreed. You got an enemy, or we got in someone’s territory and didn’t know it.”

“Yeah, that’s what I’m afraid of. Let’s back on out of here and call this in, eh?”

“Plan.” His answer was monosyllabic, and heartfelt as he backed toward the Jeep.

At the Jeep, they reversed course. Miles up the road, at a slightly higher elevation where they could see the entrance to the road, but not the camp itself, Niko pulled out a satellite phone and made a call.

“No, they weren’t there,” he said, in response to the question. “I’m going to go in and check, yes, after I get some backup here.”

He waited as the word came through that backup could be there in a matter of a few hours.

“Good, we’ll wait. My whole team’s dead. Yes. Okay.” Anger filled him at the thought of his men, all of them loyal, all of them veterans of campaigns with him all over the world. Emergency measures were in effect now, and he’d take all the necessary precautions he and his team had agreed upon.

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