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Callahan cut him off “Don’t ask me how I know, not over an unsecured phone line” He let that sink in before adding, “Just trust me on this, okay?”

Cody thought about it for all of half a minute Callahan had once trusted hih he’d kno Cody felt about Mandy, had known other things, too Despite that, Callahan had saved Cody’s life after Mandy shot hi precious seconds to apply a h both er froton If he hadn’t done that, Cody wouldn’t be alive today

“Okay,” Cody said, but he knew that one as enough—Callahan got the e “We need to talk”

“Not over the phone”

“Where, then?”

“Can you come to Black Rock? I’d come to Denver, but”

He didn’t have to finish Cody knew Callahan would never leave Mandy and their three children, not if danger threatened them And if the New World Militia really had been resurrected, Callahan, and anyone close to hier

You, too, he thought for a second, before brushing it aside as immaterial He’d been undercover himself for four years in the New World Militia before he and Callahan had killed Pennington and sanization that had also had its fingers in gunrunning and drug trafficking, as well as other illegal activities If Callahan was in danger, so was he

“I’ll have to tell my supervisor, not to mention my partner”

There was a long, pregnant pause while Callahan considered this “Isn’t Nick D’Arcy still the head of the Denver branch of the agency?”

“Yeah”

“How about telling him first? This octopus could have tentacles everywhere,” he said, referring obliquely to the New World Militia “I trust you and D’Arcy, and maybe one other person, but”