Not for at least three miles in any direction. This was, after all, Colorado. Trees covered half the state. After the Christian Kane incident, Carver had become paranoid something like that might happen again. Even worse, Simon might try to send one of his own men into the game. With that fear i...
He’d been with the FBI for almost ten years, climbing his way up the bureaucratic ladder, and now worked in a vital section of the organization. His job was mainly to scour the Internet and keep tabs on certain terrorist cells. Ever since its conception the Internet had been a major threat not on...
Just what was she thinking? Running away from her troubles, from her husband’s sudden bad name, yes that was all true, but how was she going to do it? There had been a plan, but a weak plan, and it had mostly come off way too spontaneous, Elizabeth deciding that it was now or never and her friend...
Keeping a healthy distance, looking as if you’re busy, acting as if you belong where you are and that the very last thing you are doing is following someone else. You have to keep your target in sight at all times, while at the same time you have to act like your target barely even exists. Of co...
Following no trail Conrad could determine, passing between trees, stepping over branches, coming to a stream, and then following the stream as it bubbled and trickled over rocks, until the distant humming of a generator began to grow. Gabriel met him at the door. The zombie asked him if he was ok...
I lay awake in bed—which was nothing more than a moldy mattress covered with fresh white linens—for close to an hour, staring at the picture of my parents that I had fastened into the ceiling. Above me, the rain tapped out an irregular but consistent beat on the aluminum roofing, until about nine...
I’d been driving for almost five minutes, having already smoked one cigarette. I had passed through Doyle, which wasn’t much of a town, and now it was just me and the road. This noise had started the moment I first pulled back on the highway, but I figured it was just the Dodge. Then the noise st...