Montezuma's Eyes

By Larry Walker

In this very suspenseful story read where Mexico needing money due to the loss of tourism from violence from the drug cartel comes up with the idea of having a special built train titled Montezuma's Express to carry the statue of Montezuma, along with his Topaz Eyes, which are insured by Loyd's of London for $5 million pesos. Also on the train will be priceless Aztec artifacts. The plan is to take Mexico's most prized possessions on a North American tour on a heavily fortified train to restore Mexican pride and raise money to help fight the cartel. The allure is too strong for the cartels to pass up the oppurtunity to overtake the train to gain possession of what all their drug money can't buy. An agent with the Loyd's of London Insurance company calls in the Five Feathers of Justice, a paramilitary team, to track down and retrieve the stolen Topaz Eyes and restore the president's reputation. But with an exciting twist, everything is not what it seems!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jun 12, 2020
• ISBN: 9781698701462

Larry Walker

I sometimes write under the shortened version of my name, which is Larry Walker, by using L. D. Walker. I started to get interested in reading at a very young age and soon started reading everything in the house. Mom’s movie magazines and Dad’s outdoor magazines, and also Life and TV guides for Reader’s Digest. I first started to write in the summer of 1964 while I was a member of the Marine Corps. After being published in my hometown newspaper on a weekly basis, I discovered that I love to write. But I spent a number of years doing different jobs, putting off my real love until fate intervened with a stroke of good luck, which sidelined me and enabled me to write every day.

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MONTEZUMA’S

EYES

Larry Walker

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Copyright 2020 Larry Walker.

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ISBN: 978-1-6987-0145-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6987-0146-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020909924

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PAGE

I wish to thank Mrs Jane Matthis, English teacher extrordinaire, retired and very dear friend. She always believed in me and my ability to write. In addition, the Almighty God above.

FADE IN:

EXT. REMOTE MEXICAN VILLAGE NEAR THE GULF OF MEXICO - MORNING

A well-guarded trailer convoy snakes its way through the dusty, potholed streets. This marks the beginning of a U.S. DEA- sponsored tour through Mexico to instill patriotism and raise money for weaponry in their war against the drug cartel’s well-equipped army. The violence has become such that tourism is now almost non-existent. The tour will then turn to the U.S.

We see that a flatbed trailer is a part of the convoy and on that trailer lies a life-sized marble stature of the former Aztec king, Montezuma. The government purchased twin almond-shaped rubies for the statue’s eyes… Rubies so valuable,(over fifty million pesos,) that insurance from Lloyd’s of London was procured separately for the stones.

Along the streets are lined hundreds of poor Mexican inhabitants, the survivors of an air raid made only days earlier. In their hands are Mexican flags they wave proudly, chests swelling with pride at the magnificence of their ancient king.

Lying beside the statued Montezuma are the artifactual remains of his warrior guards, discovered several years prior. The thirteen skeleton warriors bear