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| Desert Guardian | |
| What a perfect night for a kidnapping. The dry desert air felt warmer than usual for early spring, even for California, and a moonless sky offered Sam Reed the ideal cover of darkness. He peered through his binoculars at the row of trailers rimming the camp of the Star Mother cult. The camper in the middle, a dim yellow light glowing from a tiny window, held his soon-to-be kidnapees. He recognized the camper even in the dark. It was the same one he had stayed in with his mother twenty years ago. |
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Project Resurrection |
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Benny Sams watched one of four white-suited figures adjust a video camera mounted on a tripod, training it on the thawed corpse. The dead man's skin, tinged an ashen shade of blue, glistened as though made of wax. |
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| For Love or Money | |
| Claire Ballard stared at the envelope in her lap and touched the crisp edges that had yellowed with age. Even the rough handwriting that spelled her name had faded to a milky blue. When had her father written it? Probably not long after he abandoned their family in Scotland for the United States fifteen years ago. For a treasure hunt of all things. And now he was dead. In the Oregon hotel lobby, the lawyer sitting in the armchair opposite hers waved a hand at the envelope he’d traveled halfway across the U.S. to deliver. “Why don't you open it?” Peabody Henry asked. “Your father thought it important for you to know—“ . |
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