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back of the van, and drives back to Georgia.

But Linda has come around a distant curve just in time to see the huge
man tossing Ron's bike into the van. She's can't see the license number,
but can tell from the peach color that it's from Georgia, and she can
describe the van. She pedals like mad; it's at least an hour to the next
small town.

Safe in his isolation, Hunter manacles Ron and tries to find out what's
going on. He inspects the bicycle and finds the bug, which he
triumphantly smashes in front of Ron.

In the process of wheedling and posturing and torturing, he reveals his
True Identity. He shows Ron the freezers full of food and cooks him up a
nice chop.

While all this is going on, Linda is trying to make some cracker police
officer take her seriously. She tries to reach Kellerman, but he has an
unlisted number. The FBI puts her on hold.

Of course once the tension is stretched to the breaking point, the cops
come boiling out of the woods. Hunter is so huge he absorbs about twenty
bullets before he falls down dead.


***


Epilogue
 The coroner of Illsworth County, Georgia, has done hundreds of
autopsies, but never one of such a huge person, and he's not looking
forward to it. Mountains of messy fat to slice through before you get to the
organs. But he prepares the body and makes his first incision. Then he
staggers back, dropping the scalpel.

Inside, there's no fat, and not a single organ he can identify. Some of
them are shiny metal.
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