Today’s
excerpt is from Fido, Book #3 of the nine-book Asps Series. The CIA station chief in Bogotá has a problem
and asks the Asps for help. Enjoy and
have a great day.
m.j.
“Actually, I’m
nearby and have a problem. I’ve picked
up a tail. Was about to call a team of my guys, but since I’m close to the
hotel and you’re right there, how about sending me some backup. They’re in a tan four-door sedan. I’m about five minutes away.”
“Can do. Hold,” Bruce said, as he put Jose on hold and
called Harry.
“Harry, Jose has
picked up a tail. He’s about five
minutes from the hotel. Let’s tail the
tailers. They’re in a tan four-door
sedan. You handle it—I’ve got something
to talk to Jose about.”
“Right.”
Off the call to
Harry, Bruce got Jose back. “Harry will
take care of it. You just park and come
on up here to the suite.”
“Thanks,
Bruce. See you in a few.”
Off the call
with Bruce, Harry quickly tossed more than enough for the meal and rather large
tip on the table. “Come on, Ike—we’ve
got work.”
As he stood up
and headed out of the hotel restaurant, he gave a head nod to Dusty, who
reached into his pocket and tossed a wad of money on the table, to more than
cover the meal. Sarah had seen the head
nod from Harry and got up as well. Jack,
on seeing the quick movements by the others on the team, tossed money on his
table and soon followed the other four.
When Dusty, Sarah, and Jack caught up to Harry and Ike, near the front
door of the hotel, Harry quickly whispered what was going on and assigned his
forces on where to deploy.
Outside the
hotel, Harry and Ike went to one of their SUVs, while Sarah and Dusty started
walking down the road to the left of the hotel entrance. Jack headed the opposite direction. As he walked, Bear and Kye were headed toward
him, from the nearby restaurant they had eaten at. He gave a slight headshake and kept on
walking. They understood at once and
kept on, wondering what was going on.
When they saw Sarah and Dusty walking in front of them, well past the
front entrance, they decided to follow along at a leisurely pace.
When Jose pulled
up near the hotel and parked, he did so between Sarah and Dusty and Kye and
Bear. He paid no attention to them, and
Kye and Bear did likewise, now certain something was amiss. The tan four-door sedan drove right on by and
stopped well on the other side of the hotel entrance, and just past Jack. He was sure it had to be the car they were
looking for, but paid no heed to it as he kept on walking. As he passed the car and neither of the two
occupants showed any sign of getting out, he walked until he reached the next
corner, then turned left and crossed the street when traffic allowed. On the other side of the street, he turned
left and walked to a nearby bar and restaurant.
As he entered, he glanced at the sedan and noted the two occupants were
still inside it. He went to a window
table in the bar section of the establishment and casually took out his cell
phone, even as a waitress came up to his table.
He glanced at her. “Rum and coke,
please.”
He called
Harry. “They parked about two hundred
feet past the front entrance, on my side of the road. I’m now across the street in a bar. Can see them clearly from here.”
“Good job. Just stay there, while I call Sarah and Dusty
and get them turned around.”
“You might call
Kye and Bear. I think they’re following
Dusty and Sarah. They were sharp enough
to note my lack of interest in them, and walked on by without a word. Guess the training Boris and Drew gave us is
paying some sort of dividends.”
“We’ll see. We haven’t gotten a read on those two birds
yet.”
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