Stern paused to light a cigarette—and to study the desolate street—before entering the rundown garage. Inside he found Billy and two other men pitching pennies by a dark car that wasn’t as ramshackle as it appeared to be. The enclosed place was fetid and stuffy. Underpinning the acrid stench of sweat were a variety of petroleum-based scents, stale and fresh cigarette smoke and...Cheetos?
He turned toward the smell and found Farley munching out of a bag of the bright orange puffs. Farley, Harley and the other three men were to lead the assault on TelTech tonight, but only Farley and Harley were scheduled to return with RABBIT. They were the only ones Stern trusted to keep their mouths shut. Since Farley had inside help, he could have walked in and out of TelTech with his eyes closed, but t
