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Chapters (110)
  1. Cover
  2. ALSO BY J. TODD SCOTT
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. PROLOGUE
  6. I
  7. II
  8. PART ONE
  9. ONE
  10. TWO
  11. THREE
  12. FOUR
  13. FIVE
  14. SIX
  15. SEVEN
  16. EIGHT
  17. NINE
  18. TEN
  19. ELEVEN
  20. TWELVE
  21. PART TWO
  22. THIRTEEN
  23. FOURTEEN
  24. FIFTEEN
  25. SIXTEEN
  26. SEVENTEEN
  27. EIGHTEEN
  28. NINETEEN
  29. TWENTY
  30. TWENTY-ONE
  31. TWENTY-TWO
  32. TWENTY-THREE
  33. TWENTY-FOUR
  34. TWENTY-FIVE
  35. TWENTY-SIX
  36. TWENTY-SEVEN
  37. TWENTY-EIGHT
  38. TWENTY-NINE
  39. THIRTY
  40. THIRTY-ONE
  41. THIRTY-TWO
  42. THIRTY-THREE
  43. THIRTY-FOUR
  44. THIRTY-FIVE
  45. THIRTY-SIX
  46. THIRTY-SEVEN
  47. THIRTY-EIGHT
  48. THIRTY-NINE
  49. PART THREE
  50. FORTY
  51. FORTY-ONE
  52. FORTY-TWO
  53. FORTY-THREE
  54. FORTY-FOUR
  55. FORTY-FIVE
  56. FORTY-SIX
  57. FORTY-SEVEN
  58. FORTY-EIGHT
  59. FORTY-NINE
  60. FIFTY
  61. FIFTY-ONE
  62. FIFTY-TWO
  63. FIFTY-THREE
  64. FIFTY-FOUR
  65. FIFTY-FIVE
  66. FIFTY-SIX
  67. FIFTY-SEVEN
  68. FIFTY-EIGHT
  69. FIFTY-NINE
  70. SIXTY
  71. SIXTY-ONE
  72. PART FOUR
  73. SIXTY-TWO
  74. SIXTY-THREE
  75. SIXTY-FOUR
  76. SIXTY-FIVE
  77. SIXTY-SIX
  78. SIXTY-SEVEN
  79. SIXTY-EIGHT
  80. SIXTY-NINE
  81. SEVENTY
  82. SEVENTY-ONE
  83. SEVENTY-TWO
  84. SEVENTY-THREE
  85. SEVENTY-FOUR
  86. SEVENTY-FIVE
  87. SEVENTY-SIX
  88. SEVENTY-SEVEN
  89. SEVENTY-EIGHT
  90. SEVENTY-NINE
  91. EIGHTY
  92. EIGHTY-ONE
  93. EIGHTY-TWO
  94. EIGHTY-THREE
  95. EIGHTY-FOUR
  96. EPILOGUE
  97. I
  98. II
  99. III
  100. IV
  101. V
  102. VI
  103. VII
  104. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  105. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  106. Excerpt from LOST RIVER
  107. LITTLE PARIS
  108. DILLON
  109. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  110. What’s next onyour reading list?

Danny picked up where she left off. “Eddy can give us shitty descriptions of the cars and trucks all day long, even the men driving them or wading across the river, but none of that gets us very far. Best we can do is keep the radios we recovered charged up and turned on, just in case someone does reach out for him. Or we try to force a face-to-face with Apache . . . I had Eddy walk me through every number in his cell phone, and I’ll follow up with a subpoena on all of them, but I’m not holding my breath. I figure Eddy’s got to have another phone or radio hidden away somewhere, but he swears he doesn’t.”

“Check with Charity. Get ahold of her phone, too,” Chris said, thinking out loud. “Maybe she was the real connect with Apache. Probably not, but worth a look.” Chris looked between his two deputies. “Where does that leave us?”

“It leaves us charging Eddy with the assault on me, or pulling together a decent historical case on all the dope he’s admitted to helping cross over. A dry conspiracy, but with his priors, still enough to put him away forever, if that’s what we want.”

“But I get the feeling we don’t want to do that?” Chris asked, uncertain. “I just had a difficult meeting with D.A. Moody, all but strong-arming him into charging Eddy with those bodies . . . if we could make the case.”

Amé and Danny looked at each other, but it was Danny who spoke first. “We had to pull it out of him, but in the end, Eddy didn’t lawyer up. He told us most of what he knows, and he did it without any sort of immunity agreement. What’s more, I actually believe him. Not everything, not every word of it, but I saw him run out of that cane. He was scared shitless. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a grade-A fuck-up, and if his girlfriend wants to press charges on the beating he gave her, he deserves to sit his ass in jail for that alone. But the rest of it? I’m not ready to put that on him.” Danny shrugged, let it drop.

“But those men aren’t dead if Eddy Rabbit isn’t involved. It’s his trailer, Danny. He was part of the scheme. Legally, that is the conspiracy,” Chris pressed.