EPISODE with JASON "SWINGO" JONAS, Continued
October, 2009
Near SAN JUAN CHAMULA, MEXICO
The jeep roars down a dim dirt road. The passenger, the mustached man who apparently directed the attack at the restaurant, takes out a cell phone and speaks into it in Spanish. A quarter mile down the road, he pockets the phone and addresses the driver with a gloating question. He repeats it. He repeats it again. The driver's right hand goes inside his jacket.
"No speako Scumbag," says the driver under the mask in the voice of Jason Jonas. His right hand slashes out backhandedly, striking his passenger sideways across the face with his collapsible baton.
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The glow of the parking lights of a jeep cast two human shadows against a line of trees in the tropical dry forest. One is that of a man s
