Chapter 285

He was planning his escape to Belize, for himself and his family, when he recognized William Zabo standing 20 feet in front of him. He stopped, turned, and looked for an escape route. He saw men pinning him in on every side. He realized he could not escape, so he walked up to William, and asked, "What can I do for you, Mister Zabo?"

"You can give me my daughter back, you son of a bitch. You wanted to kill her, so you could take what she made possible, to use on another country. Now I want you to watch this, because I am going to take something precious away from you."

William opened his computer, and handed it to him. It showed a picture of the day's newspaper, and then a live television feed of his wife and three children, bound and gagged. They were standing in front of a large hole in the ground. A man stepped forward and threw each one of them into it, one at a time. He walked to a front loader, and started it.

Stengel's eyes grew