JACK WILEY

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CHAPTER 1 Approximately: 7 Pages	The operator said it was a person-to-person long-distance call for John Rand. The connection wasn't so good, but to Rand it . . .
CHAPTER 2 Approximately: 9 Pages	HIGHWAY 80 stretching north from El Paso was two narrow lanes of cracked, melting asphalt that shimmered like water in the distance. . . .
CHAPTER 3 Approximately: 11 Pages	BY THE time Rand had walked to Brennan's place he looked and felt suitably beat-down and sweaty, and he figured he smelled about right, . . .
CHAPTER 4 Approximately: 12 Pages	THE FARM workers were getting out of the trucks and moving into the fields when Rand and Doak got to the farming village of Hill a little . . .
CHAPTER 5 Approximately: 10 Pages	FROM WHERE he sat high on the rimrock, Tonio could see the cloud of dust chasing the Hudson as it moved toward him along the dirt road. . . .
CHAPTER 6 Approximately: 4 Pages	CONSUELO KNEW her husband had been killed when she heard Tonio's screams. Nothing else could make him cry out like that. . . .
CHAPTER 7 Approximately: 13 Pages	WHEN BRENNAN got back to the ranch house and parked the Hudson, Rand said, "I'm quitting." . . .
CHAPTER 8 Approximately: 7 Pages	MAIN STREET was winding down for the day. Some of the stores were already closed, and there were fewer people on the street. . . .
CHAPTER 9 Approximately: 8 Pages	SOMEBODY WAS knocking on the door. . . .
CHAPTER 10 Approximately: 11 Pages	IT WAS 12:30 when Rand got back to his car. The cup of coffee he had earlier hadn't lasted long and he was hungry. . . .
CHAPTER 11 Approximately: 5 Pages	HECTOR GUZMAN stood in front of his store, watching the sweating turistas walking down Calle 16th de Septiembre. . . .
CHAPTER 12 Approximately: 8 Pages	MOUNTAIN VIEW Drive was on high ground facing the Rio Grande. . . .
CHAPTER 13 Approximately: 4 Pages	HECTOR GUZMAN paid the taxi driver and, followed by Consuelo and Tonio, he carried the heavy box into his shop. . . .
CHAPTER 14 Approximately: 3 Pages	BRENNAN SAT on his front porch watching for Petrie through his field glasses. . . .
CHAPTER 15 Approximately: 11 Pages	IT WAS a little after 9 p.m. when Rand got back to Las Cruces. . . .
CHAPTER 16 Approximately: 8 Pages	THE RANCH house was dark. Rand couldn't see Brennan's Hudson, but it could have been parked behind the house. . . .
CHAPTER 17 Approximately: 9 Pages	HECTOR GUZMAN woke early and got out of bed, careful not to disturb Rosa, who was snoring gently beside him. . . .
CHAPTER 18 Approximately: 5 Pages	A LITTLE before nine, after having breakfast at the DeLuxe, Rand drove up East Griggs to Hood's place. . . .
CHAPTER 19 Approximately: 6 Pages	BRANNIGAN MEMORIAL Library was quiet except for a couple of children giggling at a round table in the children's section. . . .
CHAPTER 20 Approximately: 6 Pages	PETRIE WAS in a foul mood. . . .
CHAPTER 21 Approximately: 7 Pages	THE MEETING at the library community room seemed more like a social gathering than a business meeting. . . .
CHAPTER 22 Approximately: 8 Pages	DRIVING BACK to Hood's place, Pritchard's face grew longer and longer until he looked angry enough to bite through barbed wire. . . .
CHAPTER 23 Approximately: 6 Pages	"I DONE the job," Petrie told Brennan. . . .
CHAPTER 24 Approximately: 7 Pages	NAVARETTE LOOKED down at Diggs' body lying in the sand. "I knew the little rat would end like this," he said. . . .
CHAPTER 25 Approximately: 7 Pages	WHEN PETRIE told Brennan that Rand was still alive, the old man had reacted like a scalded cat. . . .
CHAPTER 26 Approximately: 14 Pages	IT WAS so hot Rand could feel the sweat trickling along his sides under his shirt. . . .
CHAPTER 27 Approximately: 5 Pages	NAVARETTE USED Brennan's phone to call El Paso County Sheriff Toad Moressy's office and told them what had happened. . . .
CHAPTER 28 Approximately: 6 Pages	BACK AT the Las Cruces Courts, Rand got out of his bloody clothes and took a long cool shower. . . .
CHAPTER 29 Approximately: 6 Pages	THE MEETING was well underway when Rand got there. . . .
CHAPTER 30 Approximately: 9 Pages	HANNAH WAS in the bathtub when Rand let himself in. . . .
CHAPTER 31 Approximately: 8 Pages	VICTOR SOAMES answered the door himself. . . .

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