The Girl Beneath the Sea (Underwater Investigation Unit) by Andrew Mayne

Author:Andrew Mayne [Mayne, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2020-04-30T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

GROTTO

Solar makes a show of casting his fishing line into the water while I stare at Bonaventure’s estate. At first I thought he was making a half-assed effort at being undercover, but then I realized he genuinely wanted to know if the fish were biting.

It’s typical Florida weather: overcast skies to the south and bright sun to the north, each side seemingly flipping a coin to decide if it’s going to rain or stay sunny here.

“What do you think?” asks Solar from the bow of the small boat.

“Your cast could use some work.”

“I’m more of an inshore guy,” he replies. “What about the place? Any James Bond villain chicanery going on?”

I was curious to get a look at the dock, but I see nothing suspicious about it. The seawall is made of large boulders and doesn’t look like the ideal place to install a secret hatch or whatever.

A boathouse stands at the end of the dock, next to a small crane for lifting smaller boats out of the water. At the other end is a motorized boat cradle and a floating dock for kayaks and craft like ours. It looks like a thousand other waterfront properties in South Florida.

At one point, another guard dressed in the same maroon polo came out and walked around the grounds before going through a door in the back of the large garage area.

We figure that’s their command center. If I were going to Jason Bourne this place, my first stop would be that garage entry, to knock them out or something. Thankfully that’s not our job.

We’re still trying to figure if there’s some way Bonaventure could load or unload a Kraken-type craft here under watchful eyes. So far it seems questionable.

“What if it’s under the dock while the larger ship is moored here?” asks Solar.

I try to estimate how much space there is under the dock. “I don’t know. The waves are a little rough. I could see the thing getting banged up on the rocks. You might be able to do it under cover of loading a bigger boat, but that also seems like when there’d most likely be DEA and coast guard ships out there watching. Too risky.”

“Yeah, I thought it was a dumb idea too. I just wanted to see what you thought.”

I study the floating dock. “If that thing were hollow . . . maybe it could raise up underneath it? I don’t know. The more I look at this place, the harder it seems for Bonaventure to use it to load and unload contraband.”

“The sub may have been only for handling money shipments,” says Solar.

“Why even bother? Why not Bitcoin it or something?”

“His South American partners prefer cash. Ever since the terrorism laws about money transfers, money laundering has been harder to get away with,” he explains.

“What about the dark web and all that?”

“They’re into that. For sure. But we’re talking billions of dollars over time. Your street dealers get the cash; it moves upstream to Bonaventure, who has to figure out how to get it upstream to the cartel.

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