Chapter 11
Chapter 11
The chapter reveals a secret: Rita overheard the name 'Wright,' a customs official, tying the smuggling to a bigger network. Ron takes them to a gambling den to borrow a satellite phone, revealing his debt to Bao. Just as Michael gets the phone, a jeep with armed men arrives.
The truck rattled over a stretch of unpaved road, dust curling through the open windows. Ron drove with one hand on the wheel, the other resting on the cooler in the passenger footwell. He hummed a tune Michael didn't recognize, something with a lot of twang.
Rita held the ledger page flat against her thigh, keeping it from curling in the humidity. She had read the same three lines four times now, and Michael could tell she was thinking about something she wasn't saying.
"You keep looking at that like it's going to sprout legs," he said.
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