Hunted by Elmore Leonard

Author:Elmore Leonard [Leonard, Elmore]
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2010-03-23T08:45:30.722000+00:00

THE HUNTED 203

hadn’t said anything about taking on the fucking Marines.

Teddy told Valenzuela—in the Mercedes again going south—that it was time to renegotiate. He didn’t mind discussing it in front of Rashad, because he knew Rashad would be on his side and it would be two of them Val would have to keep happy if he wanted a job done.

They were somewhere behind the green Camaro. They knew it hadn’t doubled back north, they’d seen enough of its dust trail to be sure of that. But the Camaro wasn’t in sight now—even with Rashad hitting ninety on clear stretches of blacktop—and they didn’t know what the problems would be locating the Camaro in Eilat or at points south.

Valenzuela was not a man who became excited. He took things one at a time and looked at them.

He said, “I agree, it’s different than it was on paper. We told you Ross, Rosen, never packed but was likely to now. Or he might’ve hired somebody who packed. But, no, we never saw something like this, a guy who carries fucking grenades in his car or whatever it was he used. So all right, you feel you’re entitled to combat pay, whatever you want to call it. Let me know what you want. Harry or myself, we’re not gonna argue with you. Harry wants it done, so do I.”

Rashad, holding his gaze on the road and the sweep of desert, said, “Something you might consider. The man has money. He’s living on something. And we know his lawyer come to give him some more. If we was to get our hands on that money and cut it up—” Rashad said. “Hey, sight unseen, I’d go for a share, not even knowing how much we talking about.”

“That’s a possibility,” Valenzuela said. “When you take Ross, I doubt we’ll have time to ask him where his money is. But Mel, that’s something else. I’m agreeable to, as you say, renegotiating. The thing is, if we keep after him we’re gonna get him, I know that. We’re too close to blow it now and have to start over. We’re gonna agree—whatever you want and think is fair. I just don’t want to stop and talk it over. The other thing—”

Valenzuela looked down at his map. “Where they going? How far? Well, they could go to Eilat and try and hide there—it looks like a pretty good-size place, a resort town, the Miami Beach of Israel—or they could keep going south, down to the southern tip of the Sinai. Then what? Go back up the other side? They keep going they’ll be in Egypt. So I don’t know where the fuck we’re going. All I can tell you is, don’t worry about the expense. Okay? Shit, we’re this far. You got something else you’d rather do?”

They passed army vehicles going north and a road that pointed west, to the Timna Mining Com

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