{"id":2492,"date":"2023-11-21T01:15:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T01:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2023-10-13T15:06:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T15:06:03","slug":"chap-50-super-sleuth-susie-heading-to-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=2492","title":{"rendered":"Chap. 50 – Super-Sleuth Susie Heading to Vancouver!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chapter 50<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Super-Sleuth Susie Heading to Vancouver!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

     On the Metro Liner train ride to Philadelphia, things started happening fast \u2013 all sorts of things.  First, Steve got a date for the night (with Phyllis).  Second, Skip set up another conference call for early evening with Ken (Max\u2019s ex-brother-in-law still in California) and Lisa (Max\u2019s ex-wife, back in Minnesota).  Third, waitress Susie (turned super-sleuth back in Montana) called to say her boy Joey was making progress out in Vancouver with Shadya (Abdul\u2019s partner in sex-trafficking) . . . \u201cbut,\u201d Susie said, \u201cShadya wants a lawyer before he talks more.  Any of your friends know a Vancouver lawyer?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cHey Steve, ol\u2019 pal,\u201d Skip said, gratefully touching Steve\u2019s shoulder, \u201csorry but another request for your excellent services – know any lawyers in Vancouver?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     That night things started happening even faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Phyllis met us at Philadelphia\u2019s 30th<\/sup> Street Station, drove us to her place, gave Skip the keys, and said she and Steve were heading downtown to see the Christmas window displays at the old Wanamaker\u2019s.  \u201cJust don\u2019t mess up my bed,\u201d she said, winking at Steve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Skip and Max called Lisa.  Lisa was already talking with Ken.  She got Ken on the line.  \u201cKen,\u201d Lisa said, \u201ctell these guys everything you just told me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cOkay,\u2019 Ken said.  \u201cAll the while Gordy was working hard to get Jane to cross-over to the good side \u2013 without me knowing anything about that, or any jihadis \u2013 I had already been telling him about me getting involved with this movie venture, in<\/em> Vancouver<\/em>. Gordy starts using some of my lingo in his talks with Jane \u2013 you know, \u2018not really religious at all . . . ‘ Gordy even says maybe Jane can help me with the disengagement and de-radicalization work I’m doing. ‘But for God’s sake,’ Gordy says to her, ‘You’re no sex trafficker!’ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cThat’s when, according to Gordy, Jane started crying, telling him about the sex trafficking being so upsetting to her – that was a new thing they were doing. Gordy pounced – \u2018You see the jihadis for what they are.  Friggin\u2019 hypocrites.  They\u2019re not about religion or human values; they\u2019re about annihilating anybody who’s not part of their belief system; they have no qualms with trafficking in young girls.  All this violence does nothing to create a better world.  Come on, to hell with Rafferty.  Turn the prick in\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Skip broke in, \u201cKen, enough with the talk, talk, talk.  We\u2019ve got things that have to happen immediately \u2013 there\u2019s literally just hours left to raise the curtain on this plot to blow up New York City.  Give us the names of your Somali connections in Vancouver.  Somebody who might be able to implicate Warsame as part of the sex-trafficking. We\u2019ve got boots on the ground up there.  Tell us who all was in on the plan to bomb the baseball stadium.  Tell us Gordy\u2019s plan to stop the New Year\u2019s Eve terrorist attack \u2013 maybe start there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cI don\u2019t have any details yet, but I think Gordy does because he believes he\u2019s totally flipped Jane to the good side.  He knows that you guys are out there, and that you\u2019re ready to go to the authorities any second, but I don\u2019t know what his plan is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cOkay, listen, this is important.  We have people in Vancouver, as we speak, who have Rafferty tied to the sex trafficking, but we need to find a live body who was in on the action and willing to talk.  We need the names of all your Vancouver contacts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Within an hour, Ken called back with all the names he knew, and how to get hold of them, and we called Susie: \u201cTell Joey we\u2019re lining up a lawyer for Shadya.  And we have a bunch of names, mostly Somalis, in Vancouver who might know something that can help us.  Have Joey go over those names with Shadya, maybe some names Shadya will recognize.  We\u2019re looking for anything at all that ties the Vancouver crowd to Boulder, to Furbush or Dougherty, or the posse in the mountains or sex trafficking.  We\u2019re working a separate angle on busting the terrorist recruiting cell, but Joey and Shadya are all we got, so far, to hang Furbush and Dougherty with the sex trafficking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cBy the way Susie,\u201d Max said, \u201cwe hear the terrorist cell might be on the move soon.  You should probably tell your kid Joey he needs to work fast.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u201cWell guess what?\u201d Susie surprises us with: \u201cSchool is out for Christmas recess and Eloise and I have a ride \u2013 it\u2019s not like a date \u2013 with Billy and Heck, the guys you met at the Chat & Chew \u2013 leaving tonight for Vancouver!  They want to help.  They\u2019d like to see a new Sheriff around here too.  Joey doesn\u2019t know we\u2019re coming, yet, but I\u2019ll call him and tell him reinforcements are on the way!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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