The Timekeeper

By Michael Hodge

Greed causes Human Traffickers to kidnap and sell children in the sex trade...What happens when the wrong child is snatched? This group of traffickers find the answer they weren't expecting when CIA professional Cameron Kane gets the call his child was kidnapped.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Hodge
• Release date: Apr 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9780979462948

Michael Hodge

Michael Angelo Hodge was born May 29, 1961 in Washington DC. My love for writing came mid way of a couple of Careers and service. More about me: I've served Honorably in the U.S. Marine Corps. Retired at 20 Years in the U.S. Secret Service after protecting four (4) U.S. Presidents. After Law School, I've began teaching at several Universities and Colleges teaching Forensic Science, Security, and Law. I enjoy writing and publishing textbooks and novels.

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Copyright © 2012 by Michael A. Hodge. All Rights Reserved.

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This publication is a work of fiction. Therefore, names, characters, places and incidents are the results of the author’s imagination and are intended for fictitious use. Any resemblance to an actual person living or dead, business, events, or locations are completely coincidental.

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This book is published in the United States of America by Michael A. Hodge and Associates, LLC.

ISBN: 978-0-9794629-4-8

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

About The Author

Chapter One

A PATROLOFFICER DIRECTS TRAFFIC IN A BUSY MEDIUM IN BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS. He pushes traffic to the left lanes a scattered debris clog a stretch of the right lane and shoulder. The bulk of debris is recognized as a flipped over cargo van which halted against a few trees. Double rows of police cruisers occupy the scene. Emergency lights blink quickly on the dash boards. FBI and ICE Agents huddle with State Patrol and Brownsville PD.

The largest illumination comes from the towering television trucks and crews.

I’m Elise Salazar reporting live from Brownsville, TX where law enforcement search for answers on a crashed cargo van carrying teenage boys and girls of different ethnicities. This all occurred after a routine traffic stop. Tune in at 8 for a full update.

A frumpy detective yells Lt. you see this? Turn to CNN. A file drawer closes. Seconds later, a brown accordion file drops on the desk. Hold one, checking my messages. After a beep, you hear you have reached the voice mail of Lt. Michael Grayson of the Trafficking division. A soft female voice follows, Hun, on your way home grab some milk, Nicholas is drinking us out of house and home.

The call ends and the phone settles in the cradle. Seconds later the Lt. appears leaning against the office door frame. Thanks Stu, we got that BOLO about an hour ago. It may turn out be something and the good thing is the public don’t know yet they were traffickers. Sadly, one of the kids fit the description of a missing kid up in the borough.

Stu is visibly moved and respond anybody snatch my kid, I’ll be slinging lead and dropping magazine clips.

So you assume only men abduct? Whatever happened to investigators keeping an open mind? the Lt pokes at Stu.

Anyway the Lt.