by Dick Stivers
Save the children…
Jefferson pointed the shotgun at the Blanco with his left hand and forced his right hand to close on the trigger.
A flash.
No silhouette.
Crying.
Darkness.
Voices and hands. A light. Blood in his mouth. The voices of the Team. Pol, Wizard, the crazy one. The faces and hands of the girls, touching him. The girls he had saved.
A siren and the blue white lights of Los Angeles streaking through his vision. He would be saved…!
For the Team—for Pol, Wizard and the crazy one— Quesada joined Unomundo as living proof that a bizarre new Third Reich was continuing to grow in Central America. But that was a job for tomorrow…
***CODE TWO*** FROM JD/WASHINGTON
TO BROGNOLA/STONY MAN *** IMMEDIATE *** PURSUANT TO STONYMAN REQUEST FBI ATTEMPTED ARREST OF COLONEL QUESADA MIAMI RESIDENT SALVADORAN NATIONAL X HOWEVER SUBJECT FLED BEFORE ARRIVAL OF OFFICERS X WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN X QUERY FORWARDED EMBASSY SAN SALVADOR X JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REMINDS STONYMAN THERE IS NO EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND EL SALVADOR X JD ***