Rolling Thunder (Coastal Fury Book 1) by Matt Lincoln

Author:Matt Lincoln [Lincoln, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-12T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

This time we called ahead to the marine unit and reserved a squad car because the scooters were kind of a pain in the ass. No one minded since it was Sunday and the patrols weren’t exactly out on the island in force.

Though we’d never dealt directly with Cobra Jon, I’d done my research. The best place to find him would be his house. He didn’t even try to hide where he lived, and he flaunted all the money he had from various illegal endeavors like a dare.

With an address on the east end of the island, the neighborhood that Cobra Jon called home was a far cry from the rundown turf where Tomaz Sands ruled. The Congo Kings were the top of the heap when it came to street gangs, but the Black Mambas inhabited the next level of wannabe gentlemen criminals reminiscent of Prohibition-era gangsters. Here, the houses were high-end and set on larger tracts of land with plenty of greenery and palm trees and looked like the Bahamas that tourists usually envisioned.

Cobra Jon figured he was entitled to the finer things in life, while Sands was old-school. Hence the rivalry between them.

“So, that idea you had earlier,” Holm said from the passenger seat as I navigated the streets toward the address. “Ready to share it yet?”

It took a minute for me to figure out which idea he meant. “Still not much there, honestly,” I said. “The thing is, I was thinking about shipwrecks.”

“Right. Your pirate boat,” he said.

“That, and our victim. Those wood splinters from the Twin Arrow.” I tapped the steering wheel in thought. “We can be almost positive that Sweeting wrecked a boat somewhere between the Bahamas and that beach, and then somehow got to shore. That means the boat couldn’t have gone down too deep.”

Holm was already nodding. “So you were thinking not just shipwrecks, but recovery.”

“Exactly, and why do people recover shipwrecks?”

He grinned. “For the treasure.”

That was my working theory. Sweeting was transporting something valuable on that boat, and whatever it was, Cobra Jon wanted it back. It would explain why Benta left the body where he thought it wouldn’t be discovered, and why he attempted to misdirect a potential investigation by framing the Congo Kings. They didn’t want a police presence in the area to screw up their recovery operation.

If we could catch Cobra Jon in the act of reclaiming whatever had been on that boat, he’d never be able to slip out of it. We could put him away for good.

“That’s the place,” Holm commented, pointing through the windshield.

Just ahead on the right was a large ocean-blue house bordering on mansion set far back on meticulously landscaped grounds that were surrounded by an eight-foot, wrought iron fence. Men in suits prowled the place, with one standing just inside the gate, one walking the fence perimeter, two circulating the grounds, and one at the front entrance of the house. No doubt they were all armed and able to instantly communicate with the boss.

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