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Gaskill looked around "Where's Pitt?"

"He's safe on the other side," replied Giordino

Sandecker struck the side of the aircraft with his fist "To cooddamned bust"

There ear back to Satan's Sink," said Ragsdale to his fellow federal agents

Starger and Gaskill rins "Oh, I think the Custoer

"You two got so up your sleeves?"

"The Escobar affair," Starger revealed "Familiar with it?"

Ragsdale nodded "The underground drug s operation"

Juan Escobar lived just across the border in Mexico," Starger explained to Sandecker and Giordino,

"but operated a truck repair garage on this side He se narcotics shipot wise to hients discovered a tunnel runnin

g a hundred and fifty meters from his house under the border fence to his repair shop We were too late for an arrest Escobar soot antsy, shut down his operation before we could nail hi with his family"

"One of our agents," added Gaskill, "a Hispanic as born and raised in East Los Angeles, lives in Escobar's for as the nener of Escobar's truck repair shop"

Starger smiled with pride "The DEA and Customs have made over twenty arrests on infor to use the tunnel"

"Are you saying it's still open?" asked Sandecker

"You'd be surprised how often it coer