ent Ray Bratton.
"
Okay," Kerney said. "Tell me w
hat this is all
a
bout."
"The man you found on Highway 81 was an undercover
officer," Fidel said, "who'd spent the last
six months infiltrating an illegal-immigrant smuggling
ring operating in this area. He was on his first
solo run across the border from Mexico with ten
aliens who'd paid two thousand dollars each to be
brought across."
"He looked like a Mexican teenager to me," Kerney
said. "Was he a fresh young recruit right out of
your academy?" Many officers were assigned to u