Dawna snorted. “Must be shooting elephants, they need something that size to hold what their hunters bag.”
Jay tapped the eraser end of his pencil on the tin roof. “Unusual choice but not strange enough by itself to justify investigation. Luckily, two months ago Vic Lopez, the Resident Agent in Del Rio, got a tip from a neighboring rancher who also sells leases. Man noticed a container truck driving into XXL and claimed he suspected illegal drug activity. Lopez doubted local narcotics traffickers required a forty-five-foot-long container. Then again, he asked himself, who would? He ordered satellite surveillance. Logged the road traffic. Other than vehicles based at the ranch, he saw mostly unmarked pickups and cars driving in and out, as though they had a work crew arriving in the mornin
