Immortal Hate (Harry Bauer Book 5) by Blake Banner

Author:Blake Banner [Banner, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

Eleven

I rattled back toward Jackstown, taking the back roads that wound through the tall, spindly pinewoods and the huge, white sand dunes, and stopped occasionally to watch the chopper circling over Gonzalo’s house—or what was left of it. At one point I stopped in the woods and listened as a couple of patrol cars and a fire truck sped past on the main road. After they were gone I joined the main road and headed for Jackstown. On the way I took one of the burners from my jacket and called the brigadier.

“Harry, good to hear from you. What news?”

“We have a small problem, and some incidental good news.”

“Why does that worry me?”

“It shouldn’t. First, of all, sir, I imagine you have friends in MI6, DEA and other related departments, people you can trust?”

“I’d say so, yes. Why?”

“Bloque Meta were setting up a base here on St. George, opening up a Caribbean passage via Barbados into Florida…”

“Let me stop you there, Harry. In the first place this has absolutely nothing to do with your assignment, and also, most worryingly, what do you mean, they were setting up a base?”

“I know, sir. I said it was incidental information that you might want to offer to your friends at MI6 and DEA. They had local law enforcement and the administration bought and terrorized. The operation was not huge, but it was big and growing.”

“Harry, why are you talking in the past tense?”

“Well, sir, my search for information regarding Colonel Kostas Marcović led me to the two local crime lords. I figured, sir, that in an environment as corrupt as this one has become, there could be no refugees from the Hague without the say-so of the ruling crime family or cartel.”

“I see, yes. That makes sense. So, what happened?”

I befriended Gonzalo Herrera, the Bloque Meta representative who ran the show here, and asked him about the Serbian who had settled here some years back. To be double sure, I also asked Luis Aguilera, the rival gang leader. They both gave me roughly the same information, that Colonel Kostas Marcović is now plain old Constantino Marcos, has lived here for a good fifteen years.”

“How sure are you that this is right?”

“I was pretty sure till today, sir.”

I rounded a bend and the rooftops of Jackstown came into view over the pines and the banana groves. I slowed and came to a halt at the roadside, killed the engine.

“But chatting with my new pal Gonzalo today, a second candidate cropped up. One Kostadin Milojević. Hasn’t been here as long. Nobody seems real sure how long he’s been here. The point is, he could just as easily be our man. Gonzalo tells me, however, that he is certain Constantino Marcos is the guy fleeing from the Hague.”

There was a soft grunt on the other end of the telephone. “There’s not much we can do from here. You’ll have to look into it as best you can. I know you well enough to know you won’t hurt innocent people.

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