Dead Line by Jack Patterson

Author:Jack Patterson [Patterson, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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ISBN: 9781938848131
Publisher: Green E-Books
Published: 2014-08-28T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 28

THE FBI AGENT POSITIONED at the top of a hill overlooking the two-lane road leading to Mr. Herandez’s compound didn’t want to answer his phone. It was Agent Solterbeck, the mastermind of this plan. He wouldn’t like what he was about to hear.

“Any sign of Cal and Kelly?”

“No, sir.”

“Weren’t they supposed to be back an hour ago?”

“At least. The appointment was for an hour and a half. It’s four-thirty now.”

“Have you seen anything else?”

“Just a few cars here and there. And a small smoke cloud.”

The agent studied the winding road below. No sign of Cal and Kelly’s car. In the distance was a small beat-up blue car rambling along. It was the first vehicle he’d seen on the road for the past forty-five minutes.

“A small smoke cloud?” Solterbeck asked. “Can you tell what’s causing it?”

“No, but this is Mexico, sir. It could be anything. It could be a farmer setting his field on fire, a neighbor burning tires.”

“I don’t like this. Drive around and see if you can see anything else. They should have checked in a long time ago.”

Five minutes later, the agent was driving along the two-lane road, searching for clues to Cal and Kelly’s whereabouts. Two miles down the road, he turned around a bend and saw a small plume of smoke rising from the ravine. He wanted to stop and investigate, but there were several vehicles parked along the road with people trying to determine how they could help.

The agent slowed down to talk to an old man hobbling across the road.

“Que paso?” the agent asked.

The old man explained that there were two people in the car who were dead. The car was burned and the people were burned so badly that they looked all black.

About that time, a police car pulled up and an officer got out and began rambling down the embankment. That was the agent’s cue to leave. He pointed his car in the opposite direction and looked down the ravine. The car wasn’t recognizable any more but he could tell it was an agency-issued vehicle.

He picked up his phone and dialed Solterbeck.

“It looks like Cal and Kelly are dead,” the agent said.

“What?”

“Yeah, I just left the scene. The smoke was coming from a car fire and there are two bodies burned beyond recognition. It looks like our special operatives are dead.”

Solterbeck let out a string of expletives before abruptly hanging up. The plan had failed.

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