Granny Goes Rogue by Harper Lin

Granny Goes Rogue by Harper Lin

Author:Harper Lin [Lin, Harper]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harper Lin Books


Nine

His voice came at such a low whisper I could barely hear what he was saying.

“Hey, grandma. There’s, like, something weird going down at SerMart.”

I rubbed my eyes and turned on the bedside lamp. My back twinged in protest of being forced to move after a few hours of lying still.

“What’s that?” I asked, keeping my voice low so it wouldn’t carry too far on his end.

“There’s some people who came up from the loading dock I haven’t seen before. Usually, nobody comes up on the freight elevator, but these three Mexican dudes came up, and they’ve been doing stuff around where you said the body fell from.”

“What are they doing?” I shifted in bed, propping a pillow under me to try to relieve my back.

“Dunno. They’ve been moving boxes, but I don’t think they’re actually working. It’s, like, two of them keep moving stuff, but they seem to be doing that to keep anyone from seeing what the third one is doing.”

“How long have they been there?”

“Only a couple of minutes. I ducked out and got away to call you. Oh, gotta go. Manager’s coming.”

The phone cut off.

I was in my car and driving to SerMart in less than five minutes.

It doesn’t take long to get ready when you sleep with your clothes on. I didn’t sleep with my shoes on, though. I am retired, after all.

I had even left a bottle of painkillers in the glove compartment. I popped one. It reminded me of the time when I had typhoid in the Western Sahara and I had to march twenty miles through the desert. I just dealt with the pain and soldiered on.

Cheerville is a sleepy town, and it’s even sleepier at night. The empty streets gave me a chance to calm my quick breathing and take stock of the situation.

We had three “Mexicans” coming into the building and doing something right where the body had been lying. Obviously, these were my Panamanian friends. They probably got access to the loading dock by showing their Escudo Security badges. No one would have questioned that. But what were they doing? Cleaning up the scene? Shouldn’t they have done that already?

They must have left something there. Something they didn’t want us to find.

The question was, had we already found it or not?

I felt that prickly little thrill I always got when I was hot on the trail of a case. This time, though, it was ten times as strong. This time, it wasn’t some local mafia or jealous rival crossing the line into violence. This time, it was international. This time, the CIA was involved somehow.

Which brought back something that had nagged me ever since I had spoken with Gary Wycliff. He hadn’t warned me off the case. Well, he had said I’d be in danger if I pursued it and safe if I didn’t, but he knew me well enough to know that was like waving a red flag at a bull. He was assistant head of the Latin American desk now.



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