Sections 5 - 7 Summary

Chee is in Captain Largo's office being questioned by a man named Johnson from the DEA. They have examined the footprints and agree someone climbed out of the wash and that all the other tracks, at some stage, cross the others. The implication is that Chee was on the scene at the same time as the others.

From what Largo has gathered from Johnson, the pilot was known to the DEA as a regular drug smuggling pilot, the man in the suit was a lawyer from Houston named Jerry Johnson, known to have narcotic connections. Largo and Chee agree that the DEA has suspicions that Chee was involved in the delivery of the drugs and that the DEA is convinced the shipment is somewhere in the area of the plane wreck.

Chee visits Jake West, the owner and operator of the...