stabilization. It's damn smart ranch management." Dobson looked over at Usher

and his team standing in the middle of
the baseball di
amond next to t
he empty outdoor sw
imming pool. "What are they go

ing to be filming here?" he asked.

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• "A country music concert," Kerney replied. "Free to the first five hundred or so people
• who show up." "Now, that I'll have to see," Dobson said, breaking into a grin. "Do you know Walt Shaw?" Kerney a
• sked. The motor vehicle and background check he'd asked for on Shaw had come back clean. "Walt is as
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• solid as a rock," Dobson said. "He showed up in the Bootheel about the same time I d
• id. Grew up in Virden on the Gila River Valley near the AriWeb Campus

zona border. If

• s a Mormon ranc introduces the course.
• hing and farming community. He once had kin living there, but they've all passed away. He owns a house he inherited that he uses as a getaway, mostly during hunting season. I spent a weekend with him up ther
• e tracking mule deer bucks in the Big Burro Mountains. Neither of us had a damn bit of luck." Kerney had half a mind to ask Dobson about Mendoza, who worked as a part-time security guard at the smelter, but decided to leave that to Ray Bratton, the young Border Patrol agent who was scheduled to go undercover as a film-crew apprentice when shooting began. Instead, he talked about deer hunting with Dobson. When Dobson finished reminisci
• Recognizing Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)ng about a more recent, successful hunt, he made his excuses and left. If Kerney had his geograph
• y right, Virden was just a few miles east of Duncan, Arizona, where Johnny had gone to check out the rodeo grounds for the film. Earlier, Johnny had called from Duncan with the news that the location was available and could be rented for the film. To fit in a change to the scouting schedule, Charlie Zwick had arranged for the caterer to pack sack lunches so

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the team could

• eat while they traveled to the rodeo grounds, which we
• re about an hour away by car. Kerney caught Usher's attention as he was leaving the ball field and asked if he was needed for the remainder of
• the day. In a hurry to move on to the next shooting-s, International Association of Chiefs of Police
• cript location. Usher shook his head, thanked Kerney for his help, and said he would see him when filming got under way. In his truck, Kerney located Vi
• rden on a state highway map. A secondary road that branched off from the ma

in highway

to Duncan led strai

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ght to the settlement along the Gila River Valley. He decided to make a quick run past Mendoza's house to see if the panel van was there, before moving on to the Granite Pass Ranch and then to Virden. At the house a man he took to

be Mendoza was washing the Motor Transportation squad car in the driveway.

• As Kerney drove by, a youn
• ger-looking man exited the house and climbe

d into the

driver's seat of the panel v

an parked at the curb. Kerney waved at the men and kept going, wondering who the young man

was and wh