Fault Lines by Steven Hildreth Jr

Author:Steven Hildreth Jr [Hildreth, Steven Jr]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781723939815
Published: 2019-01-05T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Tucson, Arizona

26 August 2018

19:22 hours Tango (27 August 02:22 hours Zulu)

Bradshaw had been following Peters for the majority of the past two days, only sleeping when he was sure Peters had turned in for the night. He felt disgusting, having missed the gym on both days, but that could not be helped. Without a surveillance team to split the work, Bradshaw had to be on-duty 24/7.

A logistics run early Saturday morning had preempted the initiation of surveillance. Bradshaw had gone shopping for two items. The first stop was at Walmart by Speedway and Kolb, where he bought a Straight Talk Alcatel idealXCITE smartphone and pre-paid $100 worth of data and minutes. The clerk had tried hard to upsell on the iPhone, but Bradshaw refused, knowing he could not remove the battery at will. He needed the phone for a phase of his surveillance later on, but before then, he did not want to carry a mobile tracking device that could be switched on remotely by a third party.

The next stop was to close the deal on a tool he had been pursuing since his close call on Thursday. Bradshaw had no option except to assume that his personal vehicle had been burned, and it was only a matter of time before somebody at FGPS noticed his use of the company fleet for personal business. He had taken to Craigslist, where he went in search of an automobile.

It hadn’t taken him long. A seller on the south side was looking to offload a silver 2003 Honda Odyssey for $1,800. Bradshaw met with them and ran the vehicle through the paces. The AC needed repairing, and it was well past its service life at 180,000 miles. Still, it ran from point A to point B, and it passed the critical portions of the preventive maintenance checks and services Bradshaw had conducted. He managed to talk the owner down to $1,600, and exchanged the title for cash that day. As soon as the van was fueled up and equipped with snacks and water, Bradshaw had initiated his surveillance.

As it turned out, Peters had the day off Saturday and woke up late. Bradshaw arrived on site at the edifice off of Columbus and Glenn just as Peters stepped out to his Silverado and hopped inside. He gave Peters a short head start before following. Thankfully, the Silverado stood out, and Bradshaw had no problem keeping up.

Peters’s Saturday had been slow. A couple of hours at the gym, back home for most of the day, then to Joe’s for some booze and presumably white nationalist chest-thumping. Peters departed Joe’s just after 02:00, and Bradshaw only followed as far to confirm that Peters was headed home. Around 04:30, Bradshaw made his way to Peters’s house, confirmed the Silverado was there, and then quietly made his way to the driveway on foot. Fifteen seconds later, the Spark Nano Micro GPS tracker was emplaced on the truck.

Once he returned to the Honda, Bradshaw installed the battery on his Alcatel smartphone, downloaded the Spark app, then logged in and ensured the tracker was active.

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