Begin here> “Come on in, Tony. Julia. Looks like people in Sumner are on our side. They shouldn’t hand us...

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Nikolai didn’t dare drive any further. The road had vanished into a faint green tunnel between trees, the grass grown...

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Alex looked out the window. The man who got out of the black SUV looked like a bodyguard — huge...