Today’s excerpt is from How
‘bout Both, the third of three Elmer Bader books. Hector Garcia and LAPD’s SWAT team make plans
to protect the funeral for slain officers, fully expecting terrorists to try to
disrupt it. Enjoy and have a wonderful day.
m.j.
At his meeting
with Hector and the three senior members of the SWAT team operation of the
LAPD, Elmer quickly explained the situation with the witnesses being outed by
various media types. He made a point of
telling them Helen’s station was the only one he knew of that hadn’t
broadcasted the information.
Then the meeting
restarted. Elmer was the last to arrive,
so the others had already made most of their plans. The cemetery, selected the previous day in
the Chief’s office, was chosen because it was isolated from nearby buildings,
at a distance to limit collateral damage, in the case of a car bomb
attack…which was expected if the terrorists were to make an effort to take out
a large portion of the LAPD during the funeral.
With the information being put out by Helen’s station—most often with
Helen herself reporting the facts—about the full details and timing of the
funerals, they all assumed they were offering up too good an opportunity for
Simmons—and whoever he was working with—to not make the try.
There was a long
drive, leading from the end of a major street up into the cemetery proper, with
a good section of greenery space on both sides of the access road. The nearest building to the access road just
happened to be a seventy-two unit apartment building…owned by none other than
Hector Garcia. On top of that, all
seventy-two units were occupied by employees of Hector—a point not lost on the
Chief when agreeing to the selection of the cemetery in question. The families of the slain officers had been
told why they wanted to use the cemetery, and they had readily agreed.
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