Today’s excerpt is from How ‘bout
both, Book #3 of the Bader Trilogy.
While Elmer and his team work on tracking down the terrorist who killed
two cops and set off a car bomb killing several people, Hector Garcia calls to
announce the help he will supply. Enjoy
and have a fantastic day.
m.j.
With Alan and
Maine helping out, they soon reached a consensus that Ali had between ten and
thirty men at his disposal…in addition to those two killed earlier in the day. Just as they were trying to figure out how to
check all known property owned by any of the men on their various lists that
hadn’t already been checked, Elmer’s phone rang. He smiled as he looked at the display
panel. “Hi, Hector. What’s up?”
“Hi, Elmer. Your Imam Alhaji Ahmed is dirty through and
through. In addition to being the
spiritual advisor for Muslims at two prisons, he has some very suspicious
visitors coming and going from his mosque.
Just between us chickens, said mosque is now well bugged. I come up with anything, I’ll let you
know. But what I do know for now is that he has some Arabs here who have unkind
things to say about America—he talks to them in Arabic. By the way, good job by LAPD today, taking
out two of the bad guys. Two less for
Ali or Ahmad, whichever of the two of them is in charge.”
Elmer laughed,
“I won’t even ask how you know those two today were part of this deal. We’ve been trying to keep a tight lid on the
information.”
“Yeah, I
know. Good job. The more I know about this Bledsoe dame, the
more I like. Even after the help she’s
been in the past, I wasn’t sure about her, but she did a real nice job of
confusing the issue while putting out the disinformation you came up with.”
“What makes you
think I came up with it?”
“It has your
fingerprints all over it.”
“I’ll take that
as a compliment. Who do you have who
speaks Arabic?”
“Me and about
ten of my guys—but none of them as well as I do. Not to mention Dan and Janet Orf. They’re gonna monitor the mosque conversations
for me. See ya.”
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