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Chapters (72)
  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  3. DEDICATION
  4. CONTENTS
  5. PROLOGUE
  6. PART I
  7. CHAPTER 1
  8. CHAPTER 2
  9. CHAPTER 3
  10. CHAPTER 4
  11. CHAPTER 5
  12. CHAPTER 6
  13. CHAPTER 7
  14. PART II
  15. CHAPTER 8
  16. CHAPTER 9
  17. CHAPTER 10
  18. CHAPTER 11
  19. CHAPTER 12
  20. CHAPTER 13
  21. CHAPTER 14
  22. CHAPTER 15
  23. CHAPTER 16
  24. CHAPTER 17
  25. CHAPTER 18
  26. PART III
  27. CHAPTER 19
  28. CHAPTER 20
  29. CHAPTER 21
  30. CHAPTER 22
  31. CHAPTER 23
  32. CHAPTER 24
  33. CHAPTER 25
  34. CHAPTER 26
  35. CHAPTER 27
  36. CHAPTER 28
  37. CHAPTER 29
  38. CHAPTER 30
  39. CHAPTER 31
  40. PART IV
  41. CHAPTER 32
  42. CHAPTER 33
  43. CHAPTER 34
  44. CHAPTER 35
  45. CHAPTER 36
  46. CHAPTER 37
  47. CHAPTER 38
  48. CHAPTER 39
  49. CHAPTER 40
  50. CHAPTER 41
  51. PART V
  52. CHAPTER 42
  53. CHAPTER 43
  54. CHAPTER 44
  55. CHAPTER 45
  56. CHAPTER 46
  57. CHAPTER 47
  58. CHAPTER 48
  59. CHAPTER 49
  60. CHAPTER 50
  61. CHAPTER 51
  62. CHAPTER 52
  63. CHAPTER 53
  64. CHAPTER 54
  65. CHAPTER 55
  66. CHAPTER 56
  67. PART VI
  68. CHAPTER 57
  69. CHAPTER 58
  70. CHAPTER 59
  71. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  72. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

“It’s actually pretty normal,” she said. “We’d take off with a platoon of Marines, headed for a hot LZ, and half of them would be out within the first five minutes—like they were in the back seat of a car on a road trip. Then again, they were always exhausted when we were flying them around.”

“That’s me right now,” said Devin. “Five minutes from passing out again.”

“We’re all right there with you,” said Rich. “We’ll pick a decent-size city we can reach by dawn and find a motel with a few sets of adjoining rooms. Rest up and go through what we collected on video. Scan the news out of Branson. Figure out our next move. Based on what we saw at the camp, we’ll have to up our game somehow. Convince some people at a much higher level to take a serious look at what we’ve assembled. We’re looking at somewhere around six hundred sleepers, most in positions we might not be able to figure out—until they’ve done their damage.”

“I don’t see how we’re going to crack this,” said Devin.

“Your mother did,” said Rich. “She put you and Karl Berg together for a reason. If anyone can figure out a way to pull this off, it’ll be him. Karl’s cracked a few major conspiracies before.”

“True America?”

Rich didn’t answer right away, which confirmed what Devin had suspected. Either Karl or Rich had had a hand in whatever had happened to True America. Possibly both of them.

“What did Karl tell you about True America?”

“He said it was a story for another time,” said Devin.

“Well. I’ll let him decide when that time arrives,” said Rich.

Devin let it go for now. He was too tired to pursue a dead-end conversation. Marnie put her head on his shoulder and held his hand, the two of them drifting asleep in the company of two shadowy mercenaries they’d barely known for forty-eight hours. Not coincidentally the same amount of time he’d been awake. Devin didn’t resist the sandman. He had a feeling Rich’s idea of rest would amount to an hour-long nap while they waited for him to wake up. He’d have to take whatever sleep he could get, whenever he could take it.

CHAPTER 56

CHAPTER 56