Perpetual by Brian Huey - Extract Page 1
PROLOGUE
March 17, 1995
Revelations
MATTHEW THADDEUS EATON stepped up into the passenger side of the massive tow truck cab and sat beside Marcos, his nervous new friend. Marcos managed the Miami Beach Shell station where the VW bus hung off the back of the truck.
It was after midnight, and the faint sound of the South Beach nightlife was beginning to come alive a few blocks away. The prominent sound on the corner of Lincoln and Collins was the rumble of the large wrecker engine and the guffaws of an occasional set of drunken businessmen leaving the local strip bars. Matthew reached over and helped Maria in beside him. He turned his attention cattycorner and down a block from where they sat, to their other new friend who they knew as Cracker Jack. He was standing with two men Matthew believed were with the FBI. The FBI men were tall; Cracker Jack was more than a head taller. The three men were engaged in a heated discussion in front of the Cuban diner where Matthew and Maria spent the last hour mesmerized by Cracker Jack’s tale of intrigue.
As Marcos maneuvered the wrecker out of the Shell lot, Matthew’s VW bus in tow, the peaceful night erupted into gunfire.
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