" I did smile at her even though I didn't feel like it."If we are going into a drug war, we are pretty much out manned and probably out gunned," Lucas...commented."Lucas, we can get reinforcements in a hurry, they can't. We need to know what the hell they are into.," I said."Well whatever it is, there is no clue in Smiley's files. He just handles their money," he said."Yeah but I bet, he knows what they are doing to make it," I suggested. "So you tell me where to find him right now and we will go. Since he lived in Tampa, I asked him to drop by after he had talked to Gene. I had an idea how he might get involved with racing again without being under the strain of being a crew chief.An hour later I was still puttering at the big desk when Debbie showed a guy in the door, introducing him as the fellow I had talked to on the phone.I came around the desk and had him sit at the table. I offered him a drink, soda, beer, whatever. He said he would enjoy a beer, so I got him a beer and a bottle. Behind all this were both 8-man squads of the TCPD SWAT Team, as well as twice their number of Officers in heavy armor, and with military-grade rifles. The Town & County Police were not just ready to stop the SBI… they were totally prepared for full combat. In the Navy, it’s called ‘crossing the T’. This was done by Lord Nelson at Trafalgar to win that huge victory, and it was done by the US Navy in the Philippines in World War Two to defeat the Japanese and retake the Philippines. The TCPD had. He then went over a rocky outcrop in order to take a swim in the waters close to the route, to see if someone had such ideas of saving their life.Coming back this way, he heard screams that surprised him. After all, those were far away, and he could not have been the cause, as much as he thought highly of his muscle power.As it turned out, the grunt was rather committed to being a criminal. Instead of hiding, he took advantage of the couple at the blocked Ilex Forest entrance when he arrived.