Home Invasion by William W. Johnstone

Author:William W. Johnstone
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780786025855
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2010-01-14T10:00:00+00:00

BOOK FOUR

CHAPTER 28

“How long are we going to stay here?”

“Relax, Earl. Nobody’s trying to kill you, are they?”

“Well … no.” A bitter tone entered Earl Trussell’s voice. “Not for the past couple of days, anyway.”

“Then you’re ahead of the game,” Ford said. “I’m grateful that nobody’s tried to kill me for more than forty-eight hours.”

“You would be, you Neanderthal. “ “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but they won’t do nearly as much damage as automatic weapons.”

“Will you two shut up?” Parker asked from the window of the camper, where he moved aside the curtain every so often to check on what was going on outside. “It’s bad enough that we’re stuck here in Pissant, Texas, without the two of you yammering at each other all the time.”

“He started it, the big gorilla,” Earl complained. “And you can finish it,” Parker pointed out. “Just tell us what we need to know.”

Earl was pale to start with, but his pallor deepened as he shook his head. “I can’t. They’ll kill me.”

“Maybe we’ll kill you if you don’t,” Ford said.

“No, you won’t. You’re the good guys, remember?”

“This day and age, it’s gettin’ harder and harder to tell the good guys from the bad guys,” Ford drawled.

He was stretched out on one of the camper’s bunks with his hands behind his head and his legs crossed at the ankles. The casual pose belied the fact that he was ready for trouble. They had been lucky since escaping from Corpus Christi with Earl Trussell as their prisoner, but Ford knew good luck never lasted. Bad luck always came along to replace it.

They had bought this used camper for cash in a little town south of Corpus, hooked it onto a pickup they had stolen that also had stolen license plates on it, then headed west into the largely empty southern tip of Texas.

The camper wasn’t all they bought. Parker and Ford picked up a couple of throwaway cell phones to replace the government-issued phones they had, well, thrown away. Off the bridge into Nueces Bay, in fact. Those phones would have been too easy to trace, and after everything that had happened, the two agents were no longer a hundred percent certain who they could trust.

It was a debate they’d had several times while driving all night across the flat Texas landscape. Ford was ambivalent about calling in and reporting that they had the target in custody. Parker was dead set against it.

“We were set up, Fargo,” he had declared as they argued. “The only reason we were there at that hotel in Corpus was so those guys could kill the little guy here and pin the blame on us. And there’s only one way they could have known we’d be there.”

“Our bosses told them,” Ford had said.

“Exactly. Or somebody who works for our bosses, anyway. If we let them know where we are, there’ll be another hit squad on us in a matter of hours.”

Ford hadn’t been able to dispute that logic, but he was still uneasy about their best course of action.

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