CHAPTER SIX Special Agent Stuart Barrett drove toward the house that the leader of Los Diablos Auténticos had given them. The police were already getting into place, monitoring the neighborhood, sending plainclothes officers to pass the house, and gearing up. I thought when I mustered out that I’d be done with all this, and here I am doing it all again. Well, you volunteered for it. In the trunk of the FBI vehicle Stuart drove was his and Alexa’s Kevlar, as well as a shotgun and assault rifle. They had decided that given the nature of the case, they should keep that gear with them at all times. Not that Vicente Pérez would be hanging out at home waiting for the Phoenix P.D., the U.S. Marshals Service, and the FBI to come swooping down and arrest him. He would be hiding out somewhere.

