No Way Back by Andrew Gross

Author:Andrew Gross [Gross, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thriller
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT

I lifted my head from the screen. An hour had passed since I had come in. Several more customers, mostly students, I guessed, were in the café. Two of them sat directly across from me, laughing at some YouTube videos. I began to think it was time to leave.

But first I put Ray Hruseff’s name into Google Search.

Several responses came back, mostly newspaper articles chronicling his history of military and government service, as someone who had always put his country first throughout his career.

First in combat. He had served two tours in Desert Storm. Then in various law enforcement posts for the government. He’d only been at Homeland Security for the past year. Before that, according to what I found, he’d been assigned to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for three years as a supervising field agent. He distinguished himself overseeing a raid that netted a group of cartel members who were running guns across the border.

“Prior to that . . .” I continued scanning his bio.

My heart came to a halt.

“. . . between 2006 and 2010” Hruseff served as a field agent in the DEA out of the agency’s El Paso office.

I fixed on it. Those were the same years when Sabrina Stein was in charge of that office.

I leaned in closer to the screen, my eyes wide, and read it again. The pieces were starting to fit together.

Hruseff must have worked for Sabrina Stein.

It still wasn’t all fitting together. I realized I needed to find Lauritzia Velez. Ultimately she led back to Curtis. To what he was looking for. She was the one link that could get me to what I needed to know.

I didn’t have a clue in the world how to find her now. But as I looked back through my notes, and clicked back on the articles I had opened, I came across the name of one person I thought would have a pretty good idea.

The person who had chartered that jet and represented her.

As I got my notes together and was about to leave, I plugged one final name into the computer.

Alton Dokes.

I stared at what came back, and suddenly everything—Hruseff, Dokes, Cano, why they were trying to keep me quiet—became clear to me.

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