![]() ![]() A battery of bright lights came on, and Gonzalez saw that he and the others were standing between two parallel stone walls. Three of our number were given tasks to further our noble cause, and they have failed us." The voice paused. "Madre mia." The pitiful whimper came from off to Gonzalez's left. Not wanting to run into an unpleasant surprise, Zavala stopped every few minutes, got out of the car, and walked ahead, like the point on an infantry patrol to watch and listen. He saw no lights ahead, but this didn't surprise him because the road twisted and turned. Where the trees opened up he could see low craggy hills on either side. He wondered what a big shot like Halcon was doing in the sticks. He switched the car's headlights off as a test and found that he was able to follow the dirt road as long as he kept speed down to a fast walk. A spotlight blinked on, and Gonzalez saw before him a fantastic creature, part human, part beast. ![]() By thwarting his Moroccan assignment, she was responsible for him being in this place. Gonzalez earned a reputation for delivering exactly what his employer wanted.ģ3 RAUL GONZALEZ SHIVERED IN THE darkness and waited for the bullet to smash into his spine, wishing it would happen before he froze to death in the cool night air. As he grew older he obtained bigger jobs. Gonzalez was barely a teenager when he approached the shopkeepers and offered to infiltrate the packs he knew so well and quietly dispatch his sleeping peers with knife or garrote. ![]() The businessmen considered the street boys as vermin. At another time Gonzalez would have talked shop with the man about the murderous skills he learned as a skinny sore-plagued orphan in the squalid alleys of Buenos Aires, where he'd dodged death squads hired by local businessmen. Lean and snake-like in his movements, an assassin like himself. The man standing quietly on his right was more to his liking. Gonzalez wasn't about to be killed because a sniveling coward couldn't keep his mouth shut. ![]() They'd been ordered to remain silent or be shot. The ball game will determine whether you live or die." "You will be given a chance to win your lives. He got a new grip on the branch and watched, fascinated, as a remarkable scene began to unfold. He was about to climb down the tree when a light flicked on and he saw a strange sight. After several minutes during which he squinted into the darkness in a vain attempt to make out details, he decided he had seen all he was going to see. He tried to call Austin but his cell phone failed to pick up a signal. This was crazy! An ancient city in the wilds of the Texas countryside. "Silencio," Gonzalez growled at the hydrofoil captain.Ī second circle of light revealed another muscular figure with a different mask, the snarling mouth and blood-red tongue of a jaguar. He wore the death's head with its staring empty eyes and dead grin. ![]()
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