Four Months in Cuba: A Titus Ray Thriller by Luana Ehrlich

Author:Luana Ehrlich [Ehrlich, Luana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Potter's Word Publishing
Published: 2017-10-28T22:00:00+00:00

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For a split second, I thought about staying inside my Range Rover. Then, I felt foolish—childish even—and got out of my vehicle and walked over to where Nikki and Benson were standing.

Nikki was facing the opposite direction, so it was Benson who spotted me first. “Hey, look who’s back in town,” he said.

“Hi, Frank. What are you doing out here? Don’t you get enough of this place during the week?”

He mumbled something about needing to put in some time at the gun range, but I wasn’t listening to him. I was looking at Nikki and the way her face lit up when she turned around and saw me.

“Titus,” she said with a big smile, “I can’t believe you drove all the way out here. I thought you were going to call me and tell me where to meet you.”

“I wanted to surprise you.”

As we hugged each other, she said, “If you’re taking me out to dinner, I better go change my clothes.”

“I’m definitely taking you out to dinner.”

“Don’t worry,” Frank said, “I’ll keep Titus entertained while you’re gone.”

Nikki grabbed her purse out of the Enclave. “I’m sure the two of you have plenty to talk about; just make sure it’s not about me.”

When she walked away, Frank pointed to a building across the street. “Let’s walk over to my office so we can talk.”

“You have an office out here?”

Frank Benson was an FBI Special Agent in the counterterrorism division at the Bureau’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. He’d been hired by the Bureau after spending several years as a Level 1 intelligence officer at the CIA.

When I’d heard he’d gone to work for the Bureau after the DDO had fired him, I’d told Carlton it was probably the best thing that could have happened to him. Of course, I might have wanted to believe that since I’d been partially responsible for the DDO firing him in the first place.

Benson was a man who liked to ferret out the minutiae of an operation. While his obsession with details had sometimes been helpful, more often than not, when it was crunch time and he needed to make a decision, he’d had too many details floating around in his head to act quickly.

Several years ago, when Benson was the primary on an operation into Yemen to rescue a bunch of hostages, his indecisiveness had led to the death of all of the hostages. In the end, that debacle had brought about his dismissal from the Agency.

Benson and I had been on the outs with each other until a few weeks ago when the two of us had joined forces to locate a deep cover operative working with an Iranian general who had plans to attack the capital with chemical weapons.

When the Iranian agent had tried to kill Benson, I’d arrived in time to save his life, but my efforts hadn’t prevented Benson from being shot.

“Yeah, I’ve got an office out here now, such as it is,” Benson said. “The Bureau’s got

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