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  1. Blurb
  2. CONTENTS
  3. Dedication
  4. CHARACTER LIST
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  59. TWO MONTHS LATER
  60. ONE YEAR LATER
  61. TWO YEARS LATER
  62. FOUR YEARS LATER
  63. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  64. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  65. Also by John Birmingham
  66. ALSO BY JOHN BIRMINGHAM
  67. Copyright
  68. Cover

‘The angles. If I had time, I’d drive over there and take a look for myself, but from these photographs it seems to me like the guy on the street had a good angle to watch Pieraro and Aronson as they approached. The driver of the vehicle didn’t. But the tyre marks, the almost perfect timing, even the way he veered just a little bit at the end to line them up with his hood ornament – it all looks like somebody was guiding him in. Like a FAC will talk close air support in on top of a target. You pull the cell phone records for that area at that time, and you’ll probably get the call. Especially if you check for sat phones. Might’ve been made on a burner, of course. Did they find any melted cell phone components inside the burnt-out wreck?’

The FBI man shook his head uncertainly. ‘I’m not sure. I have to confess, I’m not fully up to speed on this one. I just picked this up because it was flagged as being of interest to Jed Culver’s office. But if there’s no note there about cell phones, I’m sure I could get the local guys to look into it. Or I could probably pull the logs myself, if you want. Is there some way I can contact you when you leave KC?’

She could see Colvin was intrigued. She had to admire the guy. He was an investigator; it must’ve been driving him bat-shit. Particularly why she’d been interested in the homesteader before he was killed. You had your mysteries, wrapped in your enigmas, dropped into a bottomless black hole, and he wasn’t allowed to even strike a match and chuck it in there. She could imagine the bumper crop of rumours that would spring up after she’d left. Probably all swirling around the possibility of an armed Federal intervention down in the Mandate.

‘Thank you, Agent Colvin,’ she said as graciously as she could manage on three hours’ sleep. ‘I’m in transit for the next few days but I’ll have Mr Culver’s office get in contact with you. They can handle anything you turn up about those phone logs. I really do appreciate your help on this.’

‘I’m a people person.’ He gave a shrug, accompanying the movement with a goofy grin. ‘I live to help out.’

She closed the file and reached around to drop it on the back seat. There wasn’t much else in there for her. But what she’d seen was worthy of note. Caitlin turned to gaze out the window once more, looking for some perspective.