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It didn’t take tooaround to hear that the priest had also been spotted filling in for Father Walter, and that the family had driven to church in one of Aaron Cody’s beaters Now here they were Thirty feet away All five hundred Gs’ worth of them

He’d been one of the first to understand the wisdo into the Central Valley, four years before He was no brain surgeon, but he was sive a shit about killing people looked like S side of folks that serious was not an option if you didn’t have a second set of eyeballs in the back of your head and liked waking up alive every day

He’d beco business about a year after getting back to his hometown, Susanville, from an ’05 stint in Iraq with the ar for a beer truck and had applied to the huge state prison nearby, like every other sucker in tohen he bu He’d helped theanize it, raest outfit around Heck, he hadn’t even had to kill anyone Just put a few guns to a few people’s heads

But now, squatting there in the dark like so To rats of his own, and it was doubtful that the cartel wanted to find these people in order to deliver a Publishers Clearing House prize But the probleers a erous people a lot of money he didn’t have

Here’s an opportunity to ht Expand or, even better, quit altogether Get out while he was young and rich, with his head still connected to his neck

It wasn’t his idea, the h as he sat there, listening and recording the fahter on his iPhone

It wasn’t his fault that God

CHAPTER 73

SIX HUNDRED MILES TO the south, Vida Gouest powder roo

She stepped out and opened a sliding door to take it on the balcony They were in the Hollywood Hills now, the lights of Los Angeles spread out below in the huge bowl of the valley, white on black, like cocaine on black velvet The new safe house was pretty much bereft of furniture, but it actually suited the place It was nothing but sterile stone and glass, clean and cold, just the way she liked it

“Vida, I have news,” Estefan said excitedly “I just received a call We have a lead”

Vida blinked She had sent Estefan up to Susanville to see what he could see ient at Venice Beach two days before Already he had ood news

“OK, slon,” she said “Is it credible?”

“It can’t be confir them to put out the word about the reward, just like you said One of the locals just called me directly He claims to know the exact location of the Bennetts There’s a probleh”

“What is it?”