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“Deputy outside my door.”
Tate reaches for his radio.
Kane continues.
“He’s sleeping.”
Tate’s face darkens.
“He’d better not be.”
“I’m joking, Sheriff.”
“This isn’t funny.”
“It was a little funny.”
Doc takes the phone from me.
“You’re supposed to be unconscious.”
“I’ve always been a disappointment.”
“You know Arthur Harlan.”
Silence.
That tells us everything.
“Kane.”
“Yes.”
“He’s the Colonel?”
“Yes.”
The single word ends fifteen years of uncertainty.
Arthur Harlan.
A decorated officer.
A retired general.
A man whose private company still holds federal contracts.
The man behind Site Seventeen.
The man who ordered twenty-three executions.
The man who sent Grant’s team into an ambush.
Doc looks toward the recovered containers.
“Why is he coming to Eagle River?”
“To clean up Vance’s mess.”
