Rocky Start

Rocky Start

Author: Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer Listening Length: 11h 50m
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Think of the movie RED. Retired covert operatives living in a small town in the Smoky Mountains. What could go wrong? From the bestselling authors of Agnes and the Hitman and the Liz Danger series. Rose Malone’s landlord and employer, Ozzie Oswald, just died, and now she has no idea if she has a job or if she and her ...

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CHAPTER 24

I stopped just before crossing the wood bridge back to the highway and then into Rocky Start.

Luke had hit on the crux of the matter that had been worrying me since yesterday: Why had my old boss sent me to Rocky Start? It hadn’t been for boots. Even I, slow as I was at times, had finally accepted that. I turned right and walked along the river to the bench I’d cleared off earlier. Leaned my ruck against it and sat down. Maggs used the break to find a place where the riverbank wasn’t so steep and went down to get a drink, which was kind of funny to watch since she still had the cone on.

I dug the secure satellite phone out of the bottom of my ruck and turned it on. I waited while it sought out and then made its linkup with a government satellite. Then I called on the special line direct to Herc.