CHAPTER 33Miles awoke at six-thirty Monday morning and decided to take a walk for coffee without waking Ryan. It took a while to find one open as Puerto Vallarta’s day begins later than what he was accustomed to. As he began adding some milk to his very strong café Americano, his cell phone rang. The caller ID showed a number he recognized.
“Hi, Audrey. You’re on duty early this morning.” Miles tried to sound cheery, but he knew an early-morning call from Agent Drummond could only mean something was wrong.
“Unfortunately, I just received an edict from my superiors in Washington to cut off funding for your mission,” Agent Drummond said. There have been some recent cutbacks, so the mandate going forward is to only fund specific ‘hot’ cases, and while finding Jonathan Reese is a ‘hot’ case
