“Have you talked to Anita yet?”
“Why should I?”
“You two were something else in the day.”
“In the day, Raoul. In the day. Times change. People change.”
“That’s what they say.”
At Rancho la Peña, the sun still burned hot as it balanced on the horizon, spreading thick orange across the desert, throwing angular, sharp-edged shadows.
“Are you sure you want to stay with Jacquelyn?”
Dawson nodded. “Yeah. It’ll be best. Mom has a small place there in Juárez. And she’s always got relatives staying with her.”
“Yeah,” Garcia said with a sigh. “She does. But—”
“I’ll see her tomorrow or the next day,” Dawson said sharply. “I’ve got enough to deal with right now.”
“Don’t get cranky.” Garcia guided his vehicle down curving paved streets that seemed more crowded with houses than before. Each was coated with stucco, topped with tile roofs, and fronted by yards of pea gravel, crushed red lava rock, and spiky cactus. The house that Dawson knew all too well sat on a cul-de-sac, a two-story, stucco-and-tile McMansion. For a moment he felt like a college kid coming home from a spring break. But the feeling faded as he thought about his stepmother inside and how distraught she must be.
Garcia turned into the wide driveway and eased to a stop. “We need to catch up.”
“I’ll be around.”
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Joe Mac was a legendary homicide detective until his vision was lost in the line of duty and he was forced into retirement. Now he lives a life of darkness, his only friend being a huge Raven that Joe Mac names “Poe.”
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HARD DOG TO KILL by Craig Holt
Stan Mullens is an American mercenary in the Congo who is sent into the jungle to track and kill a former colleague. Stan discovers that his victim hasn’t done anything wrong. And as he struggles to survive, he is increasingly drawn in by the man he is supposed to kill. Ultimately Stan has to choose between old loyalties and new friends.
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In yet another experiment to extend human life, scientists accidentally unleash a force that might well be a terrible curse. Now an infected creature is loose in the Alaskan wilderness, and the America military is forced to ask the world’s greatest tracker, Nathaniel Hunter, to locate the beast and destroy it before it reaches a populated area.
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On takeoff from Denver during a winter blizzard, an airliner piloted by veteran Captain Marty Mitchell overruns a commuter plane from behind. Bizarrely, the fuselage of the smaller aircraft is tenuously wedged onto the huge right wing of his Boeing 757, leading Mitchell to an impossible life-or-death choice.
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When a prominent land developer is brutally murdered on the U.S.-Mexico border, it’s not just another cartel killing to journalist Kyle Dawson. The dead man is his father. Dawson, a veteran war correspondent, vows to uncover the truth.
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