Description When a world-renowned forensic anthropologist journeys to Winchester, Wyoming, to examine the long-dead remains of a woman who claimed to be Etta Place - the Old West\'s most mysterious and legendary female outlaw - he\'s not expecting to find a man\'s headless corpse in her crypt.
One hour later, right on schedule, they were met at a truck stop where three more men in rubber gloves sw.
Pearly would spend eternity in shallow, foreign earth far from his home and children, never found.
Beneath a highway overpass at a dark little border town called Beulah, they dumped Pearly\'s still-warm body in the bed of a waiting pickup, which transported him to a secluded, lonely hole already custom-dug for him in the Wyoming prairie.
They drove Pearly\'s truck west into Wyoming.
But pain was inefficient, and these pirates were nothing if not cold-bloodedly efficient.
He didn\'t even have time to hurt.
One of them, wielding a small sledge hammer, pounded a sharpened railroad spike through Pearly\'s eye socket into his dreaming brain. m.
While the Burlington, Iowa, truck driver, a single father of four, slept in an empty interstate rest area just outside Spearfish, South Dakota, three men crept into his Peterbilt sleeper cab a little after 3 a.
But it all happened too quickly.
With another hour, he might have made himself ready to die.
With a few more minutes, he might have prayed or pleaded for a few more minutes.
With a few more seconds, he might have been able to call for help on his cell phone.
From the book: "Pearly Benson could have used a little more time.
In this sequel to his dynamic first novel, THE DEADLINE, bestselling author Franscell takes readers on another wild ride with protagonist Jefferson Morgan.
And they might not survive the fall.
The grisly discovery plunges him and Jefferson Morgan - the editor of the weekly Winchester Bullet - into a shadowy and deadly world of satellite-savvy highway pirates, rural meth labs, computer hackers and old-fashioned corruption.
Description When a world-renowned forensic anthropologist journeys to Winchester, Wyoming, to examine the long-dead remains of a woman who claimed to be Etta Place - the Old West\'s most mysterious and legendary female outlaw - he\'s not expecting to find a man\'s headless corpse in her crypt
