Force of Nature by Box C. J

Author:Box, C. J. [Box, C. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: urn|isbn|9781101561157
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2012-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

ONCE THEY started climbing the mountains and Idaho was in his rearview mirror, he borrowed Haley’s cell phone and called the Teton County, Idaho, Sheriff’s Department.

“I need to report a murder,” he said to the dispatcher.

“Come again?” she said. He heard a slight click and knew the dispatcher had engaged the recording device.

“Two men using the names Bill Wood and Tom James murdered the Reverend Oscar Kennedy in his own home this morning with a sniper rifle. They’re also responsible for the deaths of Gabriel Cohen, Jason Sweeney, Mike McCarthy, and Aldo Nunez, all former Special Forces vets. And an innocent named Diane Shober. You know the names from the case files in your department, but these weren’t accidents. Wood and James stayed the last week at the Rendezvous Motel in Driggs, room eight. Make sure you get a forensics team there to collect hair, fiber, and DNA samples to help determine the true identities of the killers—”

“Please slow down,” she said. “Where are you calling from?”

“That’s not important,” Nate said. “You can listen to the tape afterward. What is important is that Reverend Kennedy’s body is taken care of and his family notified. He was a good man.”

“What is the name of the reporting party?” she asked.

“That is all,” Nate said, and closed the phone.

Haley shook her head. “That’s why you told the guy not to clean their rooms. So there would be DNA samples.”

“Right,” he said. “If they were there for ten nights, the room is crawling with their residue. The cops will find enough to positively ID the killers—provided their DNA is on file somewhere. Which may be a long shot. I don’t expect them to ID our bad guys right away, but they’ll send a car out to Oscar’s compound. I can’t stand the thought of his body unattended all night.”

“Neither can I,” she said, and her eyes again filled with tears.

After a few minutes, she reached toward Nate to retrieve her cell phone.

“No, sorry,” he said, and rolled down his window. He extended the phone outside and flipped it down and back under the back tires. The crunch sounded like a car door being closed.

“Hey!”

He said, “They can track us from the call I just made or at least figure out what cell towers sent it.”

“How am I supposed to function without my phone?”

He grinned wolfishly. “Welcome to life off the grid.”

They summited the mountain, and the lights of Jackson Hole splayed out beneath them in the valley.

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