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“Like an area er?” Ryan said

“Exactly His job is to see that British art and culture is promoted in other countries It’s a public-relations type job,” Elle said

“It’s also a great position if you want to build your own collection of illegal artefacts,” Joe pointed out

“Yeah,” Elle said “The guy has a serious obsession with building his own collection”

“I don’t get it” Joe pointed the ca stuff you can never show anyone because all of it’s stolen?”

“Greed?” There was a snap in his ear, and he got a us that are wrong with hih to make up for the fact I have a really small penis’?”

Ryan al down

Joe spotted a white van co up the empty street “Got eyes on Ed”

He watched the van as he wandered along the street There were no people walking or hanging around After the crowded chaos of central La Paz, the wealthy suburb of Alto Florida was a little eerie The houses were huge, if a little close together for Joe’s taste, and there werethe sidewalk Every house was cut off froh wall or a spike-topped fence, but unlike Liuards visible It seemed the homeowners relied on their walls and security systems to keep the riffraff out

The van stopped in front of Hayes’ house and Ed climbed out He was dressed in overalls with a clipboard in his hand He nodded at Joe and Ryan as though they were strangers, before producing a ladder froainst the pole beside the walled house According to Elle, that pole ran wires for everything from power to internet connection

Joe and Ryan sauntered past Ed as he attached the disrupter boxes Elle had furnished hi into Hayes’ house

“Tell rumbled

“You volunteered,” Joe said “You practically begged You kept going on about wanting to find the treasure No one twisted your ar”

“That was before I got to play the workroup,” Ed said in Joe’s ear while he worked “This is racist bullshit”

“Be grateful you aren’t a woman,” Patricia said “If you were a South American woman, ouldn’t even let you do that much—we’d send you into the house as a ”