Stranger Mine: a Base Branch Novel
“Suds foamed a thick lather, uprooting the stench of gasoline embedded in his skin. Through the window sunlight flirted with the foothills and threatened to inch the night away. The chase, an endless cycle. He heaved a sigh. Too bad corruption didn’t stop its endless cycle of amazing him, in the worst possible ways.
If it weren’t for the innocence and promise of youth…Alma and Alisa. For the possibility of good he gleaned in people and the lives he saved…he’d have given up hope. Given up thi...s job long ago.
Only psychopaths would get kicks, turning a starched-backed criminal into a pants-pissing, blubbering fool, begging for death.
The pilot who’d dropped him into this mess alluded to the Sinaloa tradition of making soup. Probably from tales he’d heard hauling military types in and around Mexico. Cartels made examples out of those who crossed them. Decapitation turned heads. No pun intended. Making soup referred to stuffing a person into a metal barrel, filling it with gasoline, closing the lid, and lighting it on fire did too.MoreLess
If it weren’t for the innocence and promise of youth…Alma and Alisa. For the possibility of good he gleaned in people and the lives he saved…he’d have given up hope. Given up thi...s job long ago.
Only psychopaths would get kicks, turning a starched-backed criminal into a pants-pissing, blubbering fool, begging for death.
The pilot who’d dropped him into this mess alluded to the Sinaloa tradition of making soup. Probably from tales he’d heard hauling military types in and around Mexico. Cartels made examples out of those who crossed them. Decapitation turned heads. No pun intended. Making soup referred to stuffing a person into a metal barrel, filling it with gasoline, closing the lid, and lighting it on fire did too.MoreLess
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