Trish joined me after making sure that Tyler and the Medic understood how things were setup and what to do while we were gone.“There isn’t much we...can do about the truck. We’ll just have to use it as it is. Maybe we can get the Army to fix it later,” she told me.We all had our things ready by lunch time, and Trish supervised the two Infantrymen and the one Medic as they prepared the food. I checked on Bob and Susie while they were working on lunch. I brushed down both of them and made sure they. " he said."You will have the girl with you?" I asked expecting the lie he told me."I will take you to her," he said."Bullshit," I said. "We both know this about blackmail it's not the girl for you guys. For me it's all about the girl. So you produce her at the exchange, or no deal. Remember friend. It isn't my money, or my reputation. For me, it's all about the girl." Alright," he said. That sent all kind of bells off in my head. This time I wasn't talking to the aid about them. "You come on. "See it has this part in parenthesis, '(in place of the parent)'." Randy slid further into his 'I am right, here is my proof' shit-eating grin that he sported when winning an argument. "'In the event of any emergency I accept responsibility for all costs and actions taken for the safety of my child.' With Ms. Howard and Mrs. Carlson, now concubines, they no longer can be considered chaperones. Under Confederacy Law that leaves Mr. Jenkins as the sole legal guardian of everyone, during the. "Estrada threatened to kill them, several times. What would you have done?" The same," he said immediately. "If I could. I'm not blaming you, I'm impressed. Es­trada was a fucking horror, a latter-day Jackal." He was referring to another, earlier terrorist, coincidentally also named Carlos although with different—and multiple—surnames, who'd plagued the international community a decade or so earlier."Yes," I said, remembering the menace of the man."The world's better off without him," he said.