I looked at the private in the rearview mirror. “And like Max here just said, we just bought us some time, too.”
Jackson knew what I was getting at and nodded. “Fingers crossed the captain will be even more pissed at you and will confide in me.”
“Throw in a few crossed toes,” I replied, yanking the Jeep west now. “On second thought, better make it all of them.”
* * * *
We arrived at a small desert town about twenty minutes later. Though town might’ve been a bit of an exaggeration. Basically it was a handful of small homes, a few trailers, a bar (yippy!), a tiny grocery store, and a rusted water tower towering above everything. The road through it all was cracked and dusty, which were the two most appropriate adjectives for the town itself.
This being the desert, most everyone had obvi
