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car?”
    Raphael wished he knew the answer. His heart pounded and he was helpless because he truly had no idea where it was. Without hesitation, Calderon pulled his Glock from his holster and shot Raphael’s brother in the kneecap.
    “Please! Please Jose, I have no idea where the money is! I was supposed to meet up with Pedro, but remember he was arrested!” Raphael pleaded with the psychopath. Calderon was high on cocaine and enthralled with his lust to kill. Convincing him to spare their lives seemed impossible. Raphael decided if he came up with a solution, it might buy them some time.
    Calderon looked delirious as he stared right through Raphael. The level of tension in the warehouse was unbelievable. Even Calderon’s other men seemed on edge while Raphael’s brother writhed in pain while hanging from chains after being shot.
    Raphael tried a different angle. “I think Pedro had your money. Last I heard he was going to run. You saw the news. I tried to eliminate him, but those cops killed all the Enforcers. Maybe the money was in his car.”
    Calderon was beside himself. He paced back and forth in the warehouse while his mind continued to play out scenarios as to where the money and Pedro was. The desperation he saw in Raphael’s eyes made him think he was actually telling the truth. He decided Pedro was working for the police. No matter what else went wrong, Pedro needed to die. Calderon decided he would get the boss’s money back after Pedro was dead.
    Calderon walked over to Raphael and said, “I believe
    you old friend, but I have no more use of you.” Raphael shook his head and screamed to be saved. Calderon abruptly shot him, point blank, then walked over to his brother and did the same. No remorse or hesitation. He pulled out the handkerchief from his Armani suit, wiped the blood from his face, and motioned to his men to clean up the mess.
    Their two bodies, wrapped in black trash bags, were placed in fifty-five gallon drums while Calderon accessed his cell phone.
    He dialed his contact at HSI. He needed to know where Pedro was, and where the money was before updating the boss in Tijuana. His contact did not answer right away, which caused him to worry, but only slightly. Within a few seconds, the grossly overpaid contact texted him, “With some cops right now, can’t talk. Standby.”
     

 
    Chapter 9
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    Petersen and Dix spent the better part of four hours going over the HSI case files. Kovach provided them every name of every officer, deputy, and agent involved in the case. He listed who still had access to the confidential source file and showed them the most recent cases the confidential source had worked. They quickly learned the case went on for over two years and numerous outside agencies were involved. Making sense of the details proved extremely difficult.
    Dix looked at Petersen, “Man this is an impressive case. Narcotics and money lead HSI, FBI, and CIA to terrorist groups working in the U.S. and abroad. This is no joke.”
    Petersen was half listening to Dix while he finished a file on a veteran HSI agent by the name of Lawrence and replied, “Uh huh.”
    Dix chuckled and asked, “Steve, you have any idea what I just said?”
    “I was sort of listening.” Petersen was reading how Lawrence was passed for promotion twice and not allowed to transfer offices three times. This looks like a good candidate , he thought.
    Dix continued, “Ok, we can’t leave anyone off our list. Everyone is a suspect until we prove they’re not. I don’t like the sound of that, but we have to be delicate if we’re actually going to catch the mole.”
    Petersen rubbed his chin. “You’re right about that. But I guess we can cross off Kovach and probably Romero since Kovach vouched for him.”
    Dix thought about that statement. The last case he and Petersen worked, of this magnitude, taught him no one was immune to suspicion. He decided that beside Petersen, and maybe Kovach, he would trust no one on