Mission:Anaconda (A Division Eight Thriller Book 3) by AD Starrling

Author:AD Starrling [Starrling, AD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Alex stepped out of the SUV and quietly shut the door behind him. Vivian joined him and Palmer in the balmy evening air.

They were standing on a poorly lit dirt road two miles southwest of the plaza where Gaby, Miles, and Aguilar had disappeared earlier that day. Around them stood the crowded, corrugated iron shacks that made up one of the largest slums in Belém.

They were here to meet someone who had intel on where Aguilar and the two ARMOR operatives had been taken. Vera had been informed of the assassination attempt on his cousin that afternoon and had received vague reassurances from the cartel leader that Aguilar would soon be back in Rio. When he’d asked where his cousin was, Vera had been told Aguilar was going to spend the night and the next day at one of the secret processing plants where the cartel conducted their trafficking activities. Vera didn’t know the exact location of the place but he knew someone who did. And he knew they had to act fast; plans were already underway to make new security arrangements for the bookkeeper

So far, no one suspected the U.S. Government was behind the incident at the Círio de Nazaré festival. As per their plan, the CIA had retrieved four unclaimed bodies that fitted the descriptions of Aguilar’s wife and children from the local morgue and torched them somewhere outside the city before sending a fake Hezbollah video of the supposed killings to the cartel.

Alex and Vivian kept a close eye on their surroundings as they followed Palmer down a narrow side street. Crime rates in favelas were notoriously high and anyone who looked remotely like a tourist would become the target not only of thieves and pickpockets, but also the gangs that made the laws in these kinds of places.

The road narrowed to a trail that opened onto a canal. The foul odor of human waste choked the air around them as they negotiated a rickety walkway rising five feet above the sewage-strewn waters. It was another couple of minutes before the CIA agent finally stopped in front of a dilapidated wooden structure on stilts. He knocked quietly on the wall before parting the heavy curtain that acted as a door with one hand. Alex and Vivian went through the opening after him.

They found themselves standing in a room twelve by ten feet and almost bereft of any belongings. A woman in her late forties sat tending a cooking pot on a small gas stove to their left. She paused and looked sedately at Palmer before saying something in Portuguese. To Alex’s unrefined ears, it sounded like “Are you the people Mr. Vera sent?”

Palmer replied in the affirmative. A guarded expression flashed in the woman’s eyes as she studied Alex and Vivian. She spoke to Palmer once more and waved them over to a dirty mattress on the other side of the room.

“She asked us to take a seat,” Palmer said. “I’ll translate.”

They took the mattress and waited for the woman to finish turning the stove off and cover the pot.

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