Panacea
““We’re going to spend the night near the village,” he said.
“Why?” Nelson’s grip tightened on the phone. “Have you found something?”
“No. But it looks like the Fanning woman and her bodyguard or whatever he is are staying, so I figure we better do the same.”
“Do you think she’s on to something?”
“Not yet, but it looks like some relative of the curandero showed up.”
“The girl in the photo?”
“We couldn’t get close enough to make an ID, even with the binocs. And then the sun went down and so an ID is out of the question until morning. Looks like your gal and her guard dog have called it a night.”
“This ‘guard dog’ … do you expect any problems with him tomorrow?”
“He found the bug, so we can’t listen in. But mostly he looks like a zurramato.”
Nelson hated when people threw in foreign slang.
“Which means?”
“He’s a dumbass.”
Nelson thought of the missing and silent Simon. “Do not underestimate him.”
“I don’t underestimate anyone.
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