What Jack knows about Claire from Three Card Monte:

Claire (Clarita) Sanchez

“I remember my first impression of Claire, I thought she was a tough, sailor mouthed girl with a chip on her shoulder. I knew she grew up in Turner, Maine, and I did some checking up on her.”

 “Now there is some tough detective work,” interjected Claire. “My father, mother, uncle, aunt and most of my relatives all worked at the biggest chicken egg farm in New England. It’s not like we’re hard to find. We had a monopoly on the trailers that sit up on the property, especially on Sanchez Road. If you could get past the smell of chicken shit, it still really sucked. Even in that environment I still finished top ten in my class,” she finished with a defiant shake of her head that sent her hair brushing across my face.

“The thing that impressed me most was her military record,” I continued. “When Special Ops is praising your shooting ability, you have to be good. According to Claire’s CO, she was the best sniper in the field.”

“I’m so glad I turned down their offer to join the rangers. It just wasn’t for me. My CO introduced me to Major Kidd of the DCIS, Defense Criminal Investigative Service. I was hooked with my first case where I could hunt down the bad guys. After six years in, it was time to come home to Maine. I knew I wanted to stay a cop and I wanted to work with the best.”

“Flattery will get you, well, almost anything I suppose,” which elicited some giggles from our audience. “So, I end up with my first female partner.”

“You have it made. I do most of the work anyway,” finished Claire as she stood and excused herself to go to the bathroom. As with most women I went out with, her friends promptly stood to join her.

Clarita Sanchez was born to Mexican immigrant parents who had insisted on Americanizing their children’s names hence Clarita became Claire. She’s a tough, young cop -26 years old -small, wiry, and a hell of a shot. She had never drawn her gun as far as Jack knew, but at the shooting range, she was dead on. She had bested some of the SWAT Team’s top marksmen. She normally dressed in baggy sweat pants or jeans and sneakers. She wore over-sized tees, sweatshirts, and occasionally a sweater that always hid her figure. Her long, curly hair was usually tucked into a Boston Red Sox baseball cap. 

Authors Opinion

Claire Sanchez – Physical Description from Three Card Monte

I think Claire looks like Michele Rodriguez

Seeing her with new eyes – Jack’s Description from Three Card Monte

I looked over towards the bar and saw a black mini skirt so short I doubted she could even walk without something being revealed. Under the skirt was a pair of shapely legs, tanned and brown, wearing a pair of high heeled ankle boots. Her back was towards me, which was fine for what I was looking at. She had long black hair, more wavy than curly, drifting to the center of her back. Her red shirt was cut low in the back, exposing her smooth brown lower back and tummy. A moment later, I heard Claire’s voice and looked up to see little Miss Knockout standing in front of me. Claire sat down next to me and I couldn’t stop looking at her. Her wavy hair was parted so that her sparkling green eyes looked at me from beneath fine black locks. A wide smile crossed full glossy red lips giving her cheekbones added definition.

Claire arrived just before seven and looked delicious. She had on black open toed three inch heeled pumps with the strap that goes up the ankle, I’m not sure if she knew that I loved that look or maybe we just had similar taste. She wore a black skirt cut just above the knee but with a slit up the front that ran to the middle of her left thigh revealing her long shapely bare legs as she moved. Her top was a red spaghetti strap silk cut low but with extra material draping loosely over her breast. Her wavy hair hung over her shoulders, free flowing with a hint of shimmer. She had made up her eyes with a hint of gray and dark mascara and her lips were a glistening wet red.