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“Six,” the older partner said with a nod before they walked off

“The wheels of justice areso much faster than I remember This must be some sort of land-speed record for a search warrant,” I said, watching the FBI agents scale the driveway gate like squirrels

Parker ignored al, unauthorized black-bag job if there ever was one

One I thoroughly approved of, actually Following the letter of the lahen Perrine was out there wiping out fa the traffic lahile driving a dying relative to the eency room In a word, stupid

We needed information, the faster the better We needed to be on Scanlon, on his phone, neck deep in his life, before he had the slightest inkling of hat My eyes were locked firmly on the prize, namely, a world without Manuel Perrine I’d cut more corners than a miter saw to take out the son of a bitch as still out there on the loose, trying to kill my family

It was actually only five uys hopped the fence until it slowly started opening The older agent opened the door formally, like a butler, as we came up the drive

“Where’s Fido?” Parker asked

“Out like a light After we picked the lock and tossed hiot real sleepy all of a sudden Funny, huh?”

CHAPTER 51

PARKER HANDED ME SOME gloves and night-vision goggles froht with her, and we proceeded to toss the house We were careful not to disturb anything Not just because we didn’t want Scanlon to know, but because there were guns everywhere A Taurus 380 in the bathroom cabinet, a 45 M1911 under the sink in the kitchen A locked-and-loaded, fully autoht table in the master bedroom

“Mr Scanlon seems like a fairly cautious individual,” I whispered as I showed it to Agent Parker

The treasure trove we found was in the closet of a bedroom that Scanlon used for an office

On top of a case of printer paper, we found a dozen boxes of portable disposable cell phones Half of them were empty

The phones were the unregistered kind that narcotics dealers liked to use and throay What got our blood pu phones still had the serial numbers on them Our techs could contact the cole one of them If Scanlon had one in his pocket, we could find him, even if it was off

“Please let this work,” Parker said as she snapped picture after picture of the boxes