Guns Across the Border by Mike Detty

Author:Mike Detty
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-62087-599-5
Publisher: Perseus Books, LLC
Published: 2013-04-29T04:00:00+00:00

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MI VIDA LOCA

MI VIDA LOCA

SPECIAL AGENT LOPEZ had told me before he left my house that his cell phone wasn’t working, so when Pedro called and said that he’d be twenty minutes late, I had to walk out to his car to let him know.

I brought my laptop into the dining room to do some bookwork while I waited for Pedro. I was so engrossed in my spreadsheets that he walked up to my front door unnoticed by me. Shit! I let Pedro in and grabbed Morgan’s collar to take her out the back door. Once outside, I activated the transmitter and my digital recorder. When I came back in, Omar and Julie were at the front door. Omar shook hands and made a point of looking me in the eye and smiling when he crossed the threshold. Julie was her usual bubbly self and I invited her to have a seat while the guys picked out what they wanted. I still had not activated the Hawk in its Kleenex box. Did I dare do it now with everyone here? The wet bar was covered with a mirrored wall and I wondered if they’d notice. But I really didn’t have a choice as there was now a Kleenex box with wires and a toggle switch hanging out.

I walked over and pulled a Kleenex from the box and started cleaning my eyeglasses. I flipped the small switch and tucked the wires into the box as nonchalantly as possible. I turned around slowly, still wiping the lenses. Julie smiled sweetly—she was oblivious to what I had just done. All the electronics were now activated and I hadn’t lost anything meaningful because of the delay. I was lucky that time and realized I would have to be much more careful in the future.

Pedro and Omar walked among the piles of guns and talked between themselves while Julie and I made small talk while sitting at the dining room table. Omar pointed to the stacks of ten Rock River AR-15 carbines and spoke in Spanish.

“He wants all of those,” said Pedro. He asked if I had more.

“How many does he want?”

“He says at least ten more.”

Omar also wanted all of the .38 Supers that I had left. They had me do some quick math to see what the total came to. Pedro had not yet started picking out guns for himself and after a while it became apparent to me that Julie was going to do the paperwork for all of the guns and that Omar would just pay for Pedro’s guns, rather than give him a cash kickback. A little later, Pedro put one of the Rock River Entry Tactical rifles aside saying that it was for his cousin José.

With the selections now made, I tallied the order and it came to $33,994. Omar had brought a stack of cash in a Big Lots shopping bag. I had Julie and Pedro separate the denominations and count the money out into stacks of $1,000 which I then confirmed with the counting machine and banded.

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