“Why not the other way around?”
He smiled. “I’m not too proud to admit that you’re a better shot than I am.”
She looked in the back of her truck. “I’ve got my sniper rifle back there.”
“Good. We might just need it.”
“You think Tyler has doubts about his dad?”
Sean shook his head. “No. He obviously idolizes the guy. I just hope the sergeant doesn’t disappoint in the hero department.” He looked up ahead. “We’re going to find out soon enough. That’s the turnoff for the road to the fishing hole. We’re going to park up the road a ways. The last thing I want is for Tyler to spot your truck. We’ll backtrack, do a recon, set up an observation point, and wait.”
“Sam Wingo might already be here waiting.”
“He might. And there’s nothing we can do about that.” He looked at her. “Can you do it?”
“Do what?”
“Pull the trigger on Wingo if it comes to it. With Tyler there?”
Michelle didn’t hesitate. “I’m not going to let anything happen to you, Sean. You can take that to the bank and cash it.”
CHAPTER
47
THE MAN SAID, “THIS IS more valuable than gold, you know that? Than platinum. Than, hell, I don’t know what.”
Alan Grant sat in the car and stared over at him.
“I understand that,” said Grant. “More than platinum. And yet you’re only charging for platinum. Thanks for the deal.”
The other man was Milo Pratt. He was short, chubby, and had a lot of years in places that had allowed to him to get the platinum Grant needed.
He smiled at Grant. “Do you know what the price of platinum is?”
“High. Higher than gold, probably.”
“Gold isn’t even in the ballpark. What’s your name again?”
“Not important.”
“Why do you want it?
“I’m curious, always have been,” said Grant. “It’s just my thing.”
Pratt smiled more broadly. “But why this thing? Why this info? Guy has to ask. You understand, right?”
“Perfectly. I would have been disappointed if you hadn’t asked.”
“Good, good. So why? Really?”
“Isn’t it obvious?”
“You a traitor? I mean, I got no problem with that, but I would like to know.”
“Not a traitor, quite the opposite in fact.”
“You a Fed? Got some squirrelly covert op going on?”