The Innocents by Nathan Senthil

Author:Nathan Senthil [Senthil, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Book Folks
Published: 2021-05-03T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

April 6, 2019. 8:01 A.M.

The swelling river snaked between a series of hills, before flowing right and disappearing along the woods. The road they were on looked feeble and thin, running through majestic mountains and forests. Like a floating noodle on a green ocean.

Joshua opened the glovebox and took out the Skoal tin. Just as he finished burying two in his mouth, an impatient douche honked behind, forcing him to drive onwards. The congestion moved at a snail’s pace and the toll booth was a good three minutes away. What’s the rush then? Why not look outside at the scenery nature had been chiseling for millions of years? The fortitude of a river that eroded its way through titanic rock was inspiring.

Having no choice but to watch the arid I-80, his mind disassociated.

“Boring,” Peter voiced Joshua’s thought.

He grunted in return.

“Now would be an optimal time to say why Detroit.”

“Couldn’t agree more,” Joshua replied and started filling his partner in.

After Nigel told him about the Desert Eagle, Joshua talked with Magnum and eventually with the Detroit PD. He gathered a trove of knowledge, the chief among it was that Lolly could be using one of the first models of Desert Eagle Magnum had experimented with. That explained the abnormal 1:21” twist rate. It was a functioning piece, but not the perfect handgun they released in 1983.

“Where did Lolly get a gun like that?” Peter asked, his wrinkled eyelids barely containing the same puppy-like curiosity they did eighteen years ago.

Joshua whistled. “You might wanna strap yourself. It’s one hell of a story.”

He proceeded to explain: in 1981, the then new company, Magnum Research Inc., filed a lawsuit against MacSharp, its competition. A prototype Magnum had been developing in their Michigan facility, apparently the most powerful pistol in the world at that time, had gone missing.

“The Desert Eagle?”

“Yes,” Joshua confirmed. “Their corporate security conducted an investigation. Turned out one of the employees in their research team was a double agent working for MacSharp. But Magnum couldn’t prove anything.”

“How did Lolly get the Eagle from MacSharp?” Peter said.

“A few months after the theft at Magnum, two of MacSharp’s employees were found dead on a seedy road on Livernois Avenue. A driver and a security guard who delivered trucks. But the company said that no truck left their Detroit facility that night.”

“Maybe they didn’t.”

“But the witnesses on Livernois Avenue reported they saw a truck, resembling the same models MacSharp employed for transportation. It was driving dangerously, and get this: someone was clinging to its passenger side door.”

“A hijack,” Peter said.

Joshua affirmed with a nod. “The arms on a level crossing nearby had some paint scraped. Same type of paint used on MacSharp’s trucks. But they denied everything, and the case went nowhere.”

“What will a burglar do if a scorpion stings him at a house he’s broken into?”

“Keep his goddamn mouth shut.” Joshua chuckled. “Another important detail is, like how MacSharp had a snitch in Magnum, someone had a snitch in MacSharp.”

“Who?” Peter frowned.

“A crime family named Detroit Alliance.

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