Kill or be Killed by James Patterson

Author:James Patterson [Patterson, James]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781786530813
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2016-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 4

Present Day

THAT WAS THE beginning. That was what led me here to this freeway underpass, parked under a tree just beyond it, eighty miles east of El Paso. A million miles south of paradise.

Waiting. Watching.

I was in a sedan, waiting for the arrival of a particular truck. Rita was parked five miles away, watching from a small hillside. Page one of that manual I mentioned earlier says that heat is a state of mind. You can decide to be uncomfortable. You can decide not. I stopped feeling things entirely. It had been two years since I became a person without a family. At this point in my life, my skin doesn’t feel. My skin merely assesses.

“Badger Three to Badger Eight.”

I was talking to the Fat Man. I was using identification codes that intentionally misrepresented the size of our team. When your numbers are small, you want your enemy to think you are large. When you are large, you want them to think you are small. So says Sun Tzu.

I was no longer an active Marine. I was freelance.

“How’s the road?” asked the Fat Man.

“Empty.”

“What about the temperature?”

“Hundred and five,” I replied. “About to get hotter.”

Rita’s voice then came on the radio. “Eyes on tango, Badger Three. Point-eight klicks. Barrel-assin’ your way.”

I looked up. I saw the truck. A big rig. Unmarked. Driving well over the speed limit, heading toward my position.

Time to rock.

“Good luck,” said the Fat Man.

“Don’t need it,” I told him.

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