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Bitter Waters
a sequel to Alien Taste and Tainted Trail



Wen Spencer




First Printing, May 2003

ISBN 0 451 45922 9




To James Larkin,

who taught me not to waste daylight




CHAPTER ONE


Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania
Sunday, September 12, 2004


Ukiah Oregon peered up the city street that climbed the steep hillside; normally so narrow that
passing cars risked clipping side mirrors, it was now lined with television news trucks and police cars.
Red and blue strobe lights were reflected in every raindrop. Nations of people gathered in the islands of
light generated by the streetlamps: curious bystanders with umbrellas, tired cops in rain gear, and TV
crews trying to ignore the drizzle as they prepared for the eleven o'clock news report.
"Well, this is certainly the right street." Ukiah scanned the row houses stepping up the hill on
either side of the street. "2197 would put the house at the top of the hill."
"Ah, Christ, what a circus," Max Bennett, Ukiah's partner, muttered as he threaded the
Cherokee up the slick paving bricks and found a parking space. "Are you really up to this?"
After two grueling weeks in Oregon solving a missing persons case, Ukiah and Max had flown
out of the Pendleton Airport at dawn, West Coast time. Bruised, battered, and bone-weary, they had
planned to go straight home once they landed at Pittsburgh International Airport. Ukiah had looked
forward to seeing his fianc├йe, Special Agent Indigo Zheng, and his son, Kittanning. An urgent call about a
missing boy, however, caught them at the layover in Houston, and reluctantly, they agreed to check out
the case.