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Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

DEDICATION



FOR MUDDBONEтАж

Brock Lacock

Whit Mercer

Billy Edmonds



Thanks for the friendship, the music, and for bringing bock the girl I married.

ONE



It's a toss-up as to whether the dullest stretch of interstate highway in theUnited States is the section of
I-10 inTexas between Van Horn andEl Paso or Van Horn and Midland-Odessa. Either one makes the
badlands of theDakotas look positively verdant.

Ross Hager had opted off the interstate long before, so that he wouldn't have to drive the mind-numbing
monotony of either segment. Highway eight-two shot straight throughHobbs ,New Mexico , and on to
Artesia before crossing the Sacramento Mountains and dropping down intoAlamogordo . He'd have to
hook back up with I-10 eventually, but not until it entered the more scenic country to be found
aroundLas Cruces .

Meanwhile he delighted in the green foothills which gave rise to the eastern slopes of the Sacramentos,