Today’s excerpt is from Bigfoot
Bait, the second of three Bob Becker books. Jim and Holly Scott helping Bob in the hunt
for the man believed to have kidnapped two co-eds. Jim also gets Dan and Janet Orf, and Hector,
to help out. Enjoy and have a great day.
m.j.
Finished with
her wedding-planning call, Holly figured out her approximate time of arrival in
Los Angeles. She called Hector to give
him the ETA, telling him she would land at the small airport where Janet
routinely kept her plane. After ending
the call with Hector, she arranged refueling.
Not quite
finished with her work, Holly pulled up a map of the Spokane area
airports. After selecting the one she
thought best to land at, she called with an ETA before arranging for refueling
there, and for four rental cars.
While Holly was
taking care of her tasks, Jim was busy researching Biden’s credit card history,
concentrating on gasoline purchases in Columbia. He had already found out the model of the car
Biden owned, and had found out the presumed mileage of the vehicle. After pulling all his filling station
charges, he put his main computer to work, using his laptop. While the program on gas charges was running,
he checked on the mileage to be expected from the type of panel truck he was
thought (correctly) to be driving.
When the gas
consumption was computed with the frequency of filling station visits, the
computer estimated that Biden, on average, filled up when half empty. Using that data, Jim started another program
on the computer to estimate where he might have bought gas on his trip to
Spokane, with Columbia as a starting point.
When the program completed its findings, Jim carefully drew a circle
around each stop the computer predicted Biden would make for gas. The circles
were big enough to cover a twenty-mile stretch of the expected route Biden
would take.
Finished, Jim
and Bob went over what he’d come up with.
Bob looked at Jim. “You think
this might work?”
“Yeah, it’s
possible. Worth following up on.”
As he spoke, Jim
called Dan, who answered, “Hi, Jim.
How’re you doing?”
“Good…how goes
things with you and Jan?”
“We’re finding
out a bunch of interesting information.
But not a bit of it will help us find Clay or Ashley.”
“Well, at Bob’s
suggestion, I’ve been working on a long-shot deal to maybe help us. You feel like giving up what you’re doing to
start backtracking this bozo Biden, to see if we’re on the right track?”
“Sure. I’ve a feeling we’re just spending time
accomplishing nothing here. What do you
have in mind?”
Jim told him
about the work he’d just finished, then asked, “You feel like flying into
Columbia, then start driving the presumed route Biden will take if we’re on the
right track? Want you to see if you can
find out where he’s buying gas…make that bought gas…on his trip if he is, in
fact, headed to Spokane.”
“Okay. We’ll get in the air shortly. Send me what you’ve got. By the time we land, I should have a pretty
good idea of how to go about this deal.”
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