Rampage by Sandford John & Cook Michele
Author:Sandford, John & Cook, Michele [Sandford, John & Cook, Michele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, thriller, Young Adult, Mystery, Adventure, Social & Family Issues, Siblings, Science Fiction, Suspense, Literature & Fiction, Family, Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult
ISBN: 9780385753135
Amazon: 0385753136
Barnesnoble: 0385753136
Goodreads: 27245911
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2016-07-12T07:00:00+00:00
Cruz picked them up at the side of the road just after four oâclock. Shay was in the passenger seat, wearing a straw cowboy hat sheâd bought in Silver City.
âAnother body burned,â Odin said as he and Harmon got in the backseat. X was there, too, and he settled between them.
âAh, no,â Shay said.
Harmon turned around to pull out a fabric rifle case that he kept in the back, put his rifle in it, and tucked the case away under a cooler and their packs.
As they passed the turnoff to the ranch, they saw a man with a rifle on his shoulder step back away from the road into the piñons. âHope he didnât see us on the earlier passes,â Shay said.
âThis is only the third pass for the Benz, and unless heâs the only guy out there, we oughta be okay,â Harmon said.
Theyâd gone another ten miles when a white Chevy Tahoe came up behind them and flared its red roof flashers.
âNow what?â Shay asked.
âCruz, keep your hands in sight, on the steering wheel,â Harmon said. âOdin, when Cruz rolls down his window, you roll yours down, too, like you want to hear whatâs going on.â
Cruz took the Benz to the dirt shoulder, shifted into park. The truck pulled off behind them, and a moment later, two men in olive-green uniforms got out. One waited behind the Benz, the other walked up to the driverâs-side window. He was wearing a pistol on his hip and kept his hand on it.
As he came up to the window, Cruz asked, âWhatâd I do?â
The man said, with a Hispanic accent, âBorder Patrol. Everybody here an American?â
âYeah, we all are,â Cruz said.
The patrolman looked into the truck at Shay, Odin, Harmon, and the dog, then looked back at Cruz and asked, âYou got a driverâs license, paisano?â
âYeah.â Cruz fumbled out his wallet, extracted his license, and passed it to the patrolman, who looked at the picture, looked at Cruz, then handed it back. âLos Angeles, huh?â
âYeah, weâre all from California,â Cruz said.
Shay said, âOdin and I arenâtâweâre really from Oregon, but weâre living in Los Angeles right now, going to school.â Odin gave the guy a placid wave.
The patrolman said, âWhat are you folks doing here? Youâre a long way from nowhere.â
Harmon jumped in: âI teach archaeology. We were up at Gila looking at some Mimbres sites. These three are students. Weâre headed to Lordsburg for the night, then itâs back to L.A. tomorrow.â
The patrolman said, âWell, okay, then. Have a good trip.â
As he stepped away, Cruz asked, âHow come youâre so far from the border?â
âWe patrol all the main routes north. We could see a lot of heads in this truck, and we always stop a truck with a lot of heads.â
Cruz said, âHuh. Well, take it easy.â
âYou too,â the patrolman said.
â
Cruz eased off the shoulder, and the flashers on the unmarked truck died. As they pulled away, Odin asked, âYou think they were really Border Patrol?â
âSeemed right to me,â Cruz said. âIâve been stopped before.
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