Chapters (110)
- Cover
- ALSO BY J. TODD SCOTT
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- PROLOGUE
- I
- II
- PART ONE
- ONE
- TWO
- THREE
- FOUR
- FIVE
- SIX
- SEVEN
- EIGHT
- NINE
- TEN
- ELEVEN
- TWELVE
- PART TWO
- THIRTEEN
- FOURTEEN
- FIFTEEN
- SIXTEEN
- SEVENTEEN
- EIGHTEEN
- NINETEEN
- TWENTY
- TWENTY-ONE
- TWENTY-TWO
- TWENTY-THREE
- TWENTY-FOUR
- TWENTY-FIVE
- TWENTY-SIX
- TWENTY-SEVEN
- TWENTY-EIGHT
- TWENTY-NINE
- THIRTY
- THIRTY-ONE
- THIRTY-TWO
- THIRTY-THREE
- THIRTY-FOUR
- THIRTY-FIVE
- THIRTY-SIX
- THIRTY-SEVEN
- THIRTY-EIGHT
- THIRTY-NINE
- PART THREE
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- FIFTY
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- FIFTY-THREE
- FIFTY-FOUR
- FIFTY-FIVE
- FIFTY-SIX
- FIFTY-SEVEN
- FIFTY-EIGHT
- FIFTY-NINE
- SIXTY
- SIXTY-ONE
- PART FOUR
- SIXTY-TWO
- SIXTY-THREE
- SIXTY-FOUR
- SIXTY-FIVE
- SIXTY-SIX
- SIXTY-SEVEN
- SIXTY-EIGHT
- SIXTY-NINE
- SEVENTY
- SEVENTY-ONE
- SEVENTY-TWO
- SEVENTY-THREE
- SEVENTY-FOUR
- SEVENTY-FIVE
- SEVENTY-SIX
- SEVENTY-SEVEN
- SEVENTY-EIGHT
- SEVENTY-NINE
- EIGHTY
- EIGHTY-ONE
- EIGHTY-TWO
- EIGHTY-THREE
- EIGHTY-FOUR
- EPILOGUE
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- AUTHOR’S NOTE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Excerpt from LOST RIVER
- LITTLE PARIS
- DILLON
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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She’d said she was calling from baby Jack’s nursery at the Far Six.
He told Morgan that he later learned from Sheriff Cherry just what that call had cost the young woman—a choice between the new family she’d found in Murfee and the one in Mexico—and how it was a good thing that damn helicopter had finally gotten repaired, because if it hadn’t, he and FAST might never have made it out there in time.
He wasn’t eloquent, but described the best he could the terror of flying fast and low over the darkening desert, desperately searching for the house.
Described that resigned but calm look on Fox Uno’s face when the cuffs were put on him.
He told her all about the aftermath—the debriefings and the hearings and the interviews. He told her that it had been explained to Fox Uno in no uncertain terms that if he didn’t fully cooperate with U.S. investigators, he’d be charged with the death of one federal agent and the attempted murder of another, and be forced to stand trial in a U.S. court on the outstanding RICO charges that El Paso, New York, and San Diego had on him. That is, if he wasn’t simply handed back over to a Mexican government that was extremely desperate . . . too desperate, most would say . . . to get him back. The government of Mexico had started with promises and ended with threats, but in the end, for Fox Uno, it was one of those choices that wasn’t a choice at all.
He also told her something he never revealed to Sheriff Cherry or his deputies, about the men they tracked down after exploiting Fox Uno’s phones. Garrison’s agents had discovered that Fox Uno had been hiding two SIM cards in his boots, using them to make encrypted calls on a rare Blackphone to Arizona and California during his entire stay in Murfee. Based on the intel request Garrison had put out to the surrounding states, coupled with some high-level phone-tracking analysis, they eventually located three men hiding out in a hotel in Gila Bend, Arizona. They were Barrio Azteca gang members driving a rental car, and inside the car was a bag containing several new phones (including another Blackphone), $250,000 in cash, three guns, and handwritten notes and maps to Deputy Reynosa’s apartment in Murfee and Chris’s ranch at the Far Six.
They’d made the maps based on Fox Uno’s directions, and even as the first shots were being fired at the ranch, they were already on their way to the Big Bend to pick him up.
It never mattered if America Reynosa survived the hell at the Far Six or not. She was already dead.
That’s because the men were also carrying two sets of licenses and passports.