“I can. It will be about an hour or so. There are a few things I need to deal with first.” “Come as soon as you are able, please,” she said politely, but firmly enough to leave no doubt in his mind that his presence was not optional. “Do I need a lawyer?” he asked. “You’re welcome to have counsel...
Her first impression was most often correct, her first impulse the one she should follow. But given sufficient time to brood, she could find a hundred reasons to second-guess her intuition and jump to all manner of erroneous conclusions. The drive from Edmonton to High River takes about four hour...
For almost thirty years, from 1956 to 1984, the Atlas Mill processed fourteen hundred tons of uranium, day in and day out. All of it within a stone’s throw of the lifeblood of the American Southwest: the Colorado River. The US Department of Energy stepped in with this new project to move 16 milli...
Durrant made his way across the tent city toward the barn and stables where he had been less than twelve hours ago. He drew his pistol as he came near. He cracked the gate on the Enfield’s awkward self-extracting system and ejected the spent cartridge. Reaching into his pocket, he slipped a live ...
Durrant woke to the sound of birdsong. He rose, affixed his prosthetic, and gathered his greatcoat about him as he went in search of coffee and something that might pass as breakfast. The zareba was noticeably quieter. Nearly one third of the twelve hundred men had marched west the previous day. ...
He and Hayduke had camped here before. Hayduke’s Jeep was parked nearby but the young man wasn’t obvious. It was only after Silas got out of the car that he appeared from behind a nearby juniper, his .357 Magnum in his right hand, a can of beer in the other. “Had to make sure it was you” was all ...
JULY 18. PERRY GILBERT SAT DOWN AT the kitchen table across from Cole and Nancy. “What are we up against?” asked Cole. “There is going to be an extradition hearing in a few weeks, maybe a month. I won’t have the exact date fo...
He had been born into the Squamish First Nation, son of a hereditary chief and destined to be a leader of his people. Born with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, the disabilities that he developed were minor compared to the effects people suffered from a full-blown fetal alcohol syndrome, but by f...