Crawling through the weeds toward the drainage ditch, Eddie let out a stream of curses that would have made a sailor blush and his mother wash his mouth out with soap—if she was still alive. Not that he knew one way or the other if she was, but…
He’d been jogging home from town and wasn’t too far from his rented house, oblivious to everything but the cool night air and silence surrounding him, when he heard a car’s motor on the winding road behind him. He zigged toward the verge, figuring he had time to make it to the ditch before the car came around the curve.
He had no illusions that whoever was in the car was out for a late-night spin as it was moving without headlights. He would have been out of sight in plenty of time, he thought later, if he hadn’t stepped in a hole hidden at the r
