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they would not be robbed or their vehicles stolen.

Ben Raines and his Rebels had proved their concept of government could work; that people do not have
to be bogged down by government bureaucracy and red tape. That schools could function without the
Supreme Court and federal judges interfering with the process of education.

Tri-States worked. It had worked. And it would work again.

Ben groaned on his cot.
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тАЬYou bring back Ben Raines's body,тАЭ Al Cody told a group of agents. тАЬI don't care if it takes you six
months to find the rotting bastardтАФyou bring it back."
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тАЬWild country out there, Mr. Cody,тАЭ the FBI chief was reminded.

тАЬI am well aware of that."

тАЬAnd still full of Rebels,тАЭ another agent said.

тАЬTake as many men as you need. Do it. Find the son of a bitch and bring it back. I want it on public
display. The people have to learn that this is a law-and-order society. Anarchy will not be permitted."

The agents left the office and drew weapons. They called their wives and girlfriends and told them they
were going on assignment.

No, they did not know when they would be back.

They boarded a plane at Byrd Field and headed westward. The agents were in high spirits. Hunting
traitors was the name of the game. They were loyal to the red, white, and blue, Ben Raines and his
Rebels were all traitors and anarchists, and that was that.

It was all cut and dried. No gray area between the white and the black.

By tomorrow at this time, all the agents would be dead.
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тАЬWe hit them here,тАЭ Colonel Hector Ramos told his Rebels. He thumped a wall map and smiled grimly, a
big predatory cat on the trail of a blood scent. Ramos had lost his entire family to government troops
back in тАШ98. His wife and daughter had been raped and tortured and then cut open like pigs, left to die in
the sands like hunted animals.

Ramos looked at his people. тАЬOur informants in Richmond said the agents left two hours ago. A
planeload of them. Fifty agents, all heavily armed. They are to find General Raines's body and return with
it to Richmond; put the body on public display..."