The Driver (34 page)
Authors: Mark Dawson
He went to the second truck and looked through the window at the driver. This one had tried to get away. He was shot through the head. Blood everywhere: the dash, the seats, across what was left of the window.
He walked on to the third vehicle. Two men inside, both dead.
He walked back to the first truck to where the body lay.
He nudged the man’s ribs with his toe.
The man moved his lips.
“What?”
The man wheezed something at him.
Adolfo knelt down. “I can’t hear you.”
“
Basta
,” the man wheezed. “
Ferma
.”
“Too late to stop,
cabrón
,” Adolfo said. “You shoulda thought of that before.”
He put the automatic down and gestured to Pablo. He had the video camera and was taking the footage that they would upload to YouTube later. Leave a message. Something to focus the mind. Pablo brought the camera over, still filming. Another man brought over a short-bladed machete. He gave it to him.
The dying man followed Adolfo with his eyes.
Adolfo signalled and his men hauled the dying man to his knees. They dragged him across to a tree. There was blood on his face and it slicked out from the bottom of his jacket. They looped a rope over a branch and tied one end around the man’s ankles. They yanked on the other end so that he fell to his knees, and then they yanked again, and then again, until he was suspended upside down.
Adolfo took the machete with his right hand and, with his left, took a handful of the man’s thick black hair and yanked back to expose his throat.
Adolfo stared into the camera.
He went to work.
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ALSO BY MARK DAWSON
The Art of Falling Apart
Subpoena Colada
In the Soho Noir Series
Gaslight
The Black Mile
The Imposter
In the John Milton Series
One Thousand Yards
The Cleaner
Saint Death
The Driver
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DEDICATION
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With special thanks to Martha Hayes, Chris Orrick, Mike Wright and David Anderson.
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