The Moscow Brief: A Travis Bishop Thriller (Travis Bishop Thrillers Book 1) by KJ Kalis

Author:KJ Kalis [Kalis, KJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BDM, LLC
Published: 2022-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

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Travis watched Patrick as he took in the war room. “Who are you?”

“I run a little side business as a skip tracer.” There was no need to say anything more about his background, at least not at the moment. The war room would speak for itself.

Patrick frowned. “What’s that?”

Travis motioned for Patrick to put the guns down on the worktable. Travis unloaded all of them, checking to make sure they were clear before he said anything else. He had a rule about his guns. If they came out of where they were stored, they got cleaned before they were put away. A gun was no good to him if it wouldn’t cycle properly and in the Texas dust and grit, things could jam, the combination of gun oil and the sandy dirt turning into a sticky paste.

Opening the cabinet behind the worktable and pulling out a clear plastic container, Travis scooped up the loose ammunition and dropped it inside, the clatter of the metal jackets against the sides of the hard plastic container bouncing off the walls. “A skip tracer is someone who finds things, things that have skipped town.”

Patrick shrugged, “Like a bounty hunter?”

Travis turned away from Patrick, keying in the combination for a locked cabinet. He set the rifle, shotgun, and ammo inside and closed it again. “Kind of, but usually with no attachment to the court system. Bounty hunters are looking for people who skipped bail. I can do that, but I prefer not to. I like taking on private cases better.”

“Like what?”

Watching Patrick, Travis saw his head was on a swivel. He was cataloging everything in the room. Travis ignored his watchful eye for the moment. “Like things that have been stolen people want to find but they don’t want to involve the police.” Travis was intentionally vague about his answer. Although he trusted Patrick enough to bring him into the war room, he wasn’t ready to reveal everything. He doubted he ever would. Not to anyone. Not after what happened to Kira.

“What? Jewelry? Horses? What are we talking about here?”

Travis cocked his head to the side and scratched his face feeling the rough whiskers on his chin, “Could be anything — all the stuff you mentioned, or people.” The way the word hung in the air, Travis knew Patrick would start to quickly put the pieces together.

“So, people are tied into this big old mess. Is that what you’re telling me?”

“You could say that.” Admitting the fact that he was looking for someone sent a knot down into the pit of Travis’s stomach. He slumped down onto one of the stools near the worktable, looking at the bracelet again. He ran his fingers slowly over the stones, touching each one of them in succession – red, blue, green – the same way he had before he gave it to Kira. The memory of the day he’d given it to her flashed in his memory. They’d had a quiet meal just the two of them after a long ride on their horses that afternoon.

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