Short Straw by Stuart Woods

Author:Stuart Woods
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2006-10-10T05:00:00+00:00

CUPIE SAT WITH BARBARA in a restaurant near their hotel, picking at his food. “I can’t believe this,” he said. “Are you sure you didn’t see him again after we got out of the car?”

“No. I told you, I went to sleep.”

“And why would he take my cell phone?”

“I don’t know. Maybe his battery was low, and he wanted to make a call.”

“I guess that makes sense. I’ve got to call Eagle and tell him what’s happened.” He looked around for a phone.

“Why don’t you wait until you hear from the coast guard? You don’t even know what to tell him yet.”

“Yeah, I guess. Listen, there’s something I have to talk to you about.”

“What’s that?”

“Vittorio and I talked about this today, before he…whatever he did. There’s something wrong about this business with the kidnappers and the policía.”

“Of course, there’s something wrong,” she said. “They’re trying to kidnap me for my money.”

“It’s more than that. Three hundred grand isn’t much to these people; they get multimillion-dollar ransoms. There’s got to be some other reason why they’re so interested in you. Tell me what it is.”

Barbara looked baffled. “I don’t have the faintest idea,” she said. “Why would they want me for any other reason than my money?”

“You said you’d been to Puerto Vallarta before, right?”

“Yes, but that was years ago.”

“This whole business started after we got to Puerto Vallarta. Did anything happen on your last visit that would have interested the police?”

“No, I came down with a girlfriend for a long weekend, and we liked it, so we stretched it into a week.”

“What did you do while you were there?”

“The usual: we lay on the beach, drank margaritas, shopped, like that.”

“Did you get stopped by the police for any reason? Help me out here, Barbara. Help me to protect you. Why do these people want you?”

“Cupie, this is crazy; the police here have no interest in me or, at least, not until I wired the three hundred thousand to the local bank. I think you were right: somebody at the bank tipped them off.”

Cupie sighed. “All right. The car rental company will supply a new key in the morning. We’ll start after we hear from the coast guard, and we should be in Tijuana by nightfall.”

He didn’t believe her, but he didn’t know what else to do. One thing, though: he was going to watch his back for the rest of this trip.

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