The Regal Hotel
Junction City, Colorado
Room 207
12:07 a.m.
March 23, 1885
"I knew you'd wake up eventually, Mr. Ford. I put a little sleeping powder in the coffee the maid brought up."
"You seem to have a knife at my throat."
"It's dark, Mr. Ford. It's really a straight razor."
"Ah."
"My name's Molly Kincaid, in case you want to know. And if it wasn't so dark, you'd be able to see that I'm a very beautiful woman."
"Any particular reason you want to cut my throat? It's a messy business for a beautiful woman, you know."
"Don't worry. I've had plenty of practice at cutting throats and I'm very careful. I don't get a drop on me. Ever. And as for why I'm here, it's very simple. I want you to trust me."
"Well, we're off to a good start."
"I'm proving something to you. I'm proving that you can trust me. I could kill you in just a few seconds here, Mr. Ford. If I wanted to."
"I'm sure you could. What is it you want exactly?"
"Oh, c'mon now, Mr. Ford. You know what I want. I want to know where Grieves is."
She cut me then. I jerked in the rocking chair where I'd fallen asleep looking out the hotel room window.
Warm blood sliding down my neck. A nasty sting from the sliced flesh.
"You see how easy it would be, Mr. Ford? Now, you're a federal agent just like Grieves is a federal agent. That means you know what he knows. Am I right?"
It's never easy knowing what to say when somebody's got a razor pressed against your throat.
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In the third and final installment of this thrilling western series, federal military investigator Noah Ford is sent to a small town to investigate the disappearance of one of his own. It seems that fellow Federal Agent Arnold Grieves hasn't been heard from in awhile--and he's supposed to be investigating an important case in Junction City, Colorado. So the feds send Noah to do a little sniffing around. It seems that Grieves, with his arrogant ways, hasn't made too many friends in this peaceful town. And when Noah connects the dots and realizes that Grieves may very well be absconding with the very grenades he was sent to retrieve, the stakes get a whole lot higher.
