Today’s excerpt is from Escape
From Mexico, a standalone book featuring Bob Becker, Clyde Feegle, Jim
Scott, and many old friends from previous books. Clyde, Bob, and an ATF friend of Clyde catch
filling station owner red-handed putting guns in the trunk of a car Michelle
drove into his place of business. Enjoy
and have a fantastic day.
m.j.
By then they were on him, and soon
hustled him behind a partition. Clyde
secured his hands on the way, and the attendant’s ‘worst nightmare’ was
underway in no time. Several threats as
what would happen to him if he didn’t cooperate were hurled his way, but the
capper was after Clyde told him he and Bob were not connected with the
government in any way, just out to clear Sandy Melosi’s name. After that, on a hunch, he added, “Did you
happen to hear what happened to the five guys who raped her while she was in
custody?”
Both Bob and
Clyde knew they had him, due to his reaction to Clyde’s question. Ralph, listening outside on his communication
set, wondered what Clyde was up to, and—being unable to see the facial reaction
to the question—had no idea Clyde had struck pay dirt. He was soon to find out, as Clyde whipped out
his knife. “Okay, pal, you got two
choices: one, you lose your manhood—and
if you can get help after we leave before you bleed to death, you’ll go through
life without balls or a dick—or two, you can answer all our questions honestly
and we’ll turn you over to an ATF agent friend of ours, who will put you in
witness protection, if you give us everything.”
The broken man
asked, “What about my family? My woman,
and two kids?”
Clyde asked,
“You married to her?”
“No.”
“Well, if she’ll
have you, she goes into witness protection, along with your kids. If not, they’re on their own.”
“‘Z’ will have
‘em killed to get even with me.”
“Then you better
plan on getting married in short order…our friend can help arrange it. He’ll get them out of harm’s way for now, as
soon as you give us everything.”
“Alright—deal.”
Bob got out a
tape recorder he had in his pocket, then had the man tell about how he had set
Sandy up. When the attendant explained
what he had done and why Sandy had been arrested, Bob turned off his recorder
and Clyde took one out, and the question-and-answer session began. Outside with the car, Ralph could hardly
believe what he was hearing, but called in all three teams he had in the
area. After doing that, he asked into
his communication set, “Ask him where his lady friend and kids live. I’ll have them picked up right now.”
Clyde did and—knowing
Ralph could hear—went back to his questioning…after being told where the man’s
family could be found. The part on how
Sandy came to be arrested was due to two Mexican border guards who normally
worked the noon-to-four shift at the border entrance and would have waved her
through, but they were involved in a wreck on the way to work and had been
delayed that day. The grumpy guards who
had not been relieved discovered the weapons in Sandy’s car and arrested her.
When the
questioning was complete, Clyde muttered, “Ralph, you may as well come on in.”
Ralph hurried in
and Clyde gave him the recording he had made, which included a repeat of the
situation with Sandy. As he handed it
over to Ralph, he grumbled, “We have a copy of the original statement on
Sandy—the follow-up questioning on that is on this tape. We’re keeping the other one…no pissing and
moaning about it.”
“Are you kidding
me, Clyde? I should kiss you…but you’re
so damned ugly, my lips might fall off.”
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