The 'formula', they called it now... was working splendidly. They would have to return periodically to observe the guinea pigs, but so far it seemed a... though the formula would work over a twenty-four period, going on and off approximately every two hours. In a few days it would be ready for testing on a human being.When Tim and Bennie left the lab, carefully cleaning up and turning out the lights before hand, they were elated by their own brilliance. Flushed and excited they walked briskly. Even though I was tall, I was skinny and not very athletic. Jake was on his school's varsity football team. I had to work my way through college at various odd-jobs that barely managed to pay for tuition. Jake won an academic scholarship that was paying for most of his education. And that's not to mention the girls. Jake was a chick magnet, there was no other way to describe it. Girls that would not even give me the time of day were throwing themselves at him. He had a different date every. To achieve any of those things, I had to think like Malcomb, who took care of these types of things for Andrea. Mal would know how to make those low-life bastards dead, and gone, and do it barely breaking a sweat.For two days I dug out every piece of information that the women had to share. Instead of more hotel rooms, I took them to the mountain and treated them like royalty, but every waking moment was spent debriefing them, until I believed that I had discovered everything they had to tell. " Right, and he managed to punch a couple of holes in the guy's bird. It really pissed him off, so that's why he called the ISP. He gave them a good description of the three to the state cops. Then the ISP dispatcher got a second call, from a native American named Randy Larkspur. He reported some gun-toting Russian men lurking around the Dewey mine area down Jordan Creek from Silver City. He said they'd been seen with automatic weapons, camped out by their wrecked vehicle; something about.