Suzi adjusted her position. A draft of cool air reminded Suzi what she had been doing a few minutes ago."Hi Suzi, thank goodness it’s you." She soun...ed tired."Are you OK?" Yea, somedays it's just tough separating the professional from the home life. Today was just one of those days." Getting the bums rush out of the shop probably didn't help any." Actually that was fun. I was touched you cared enough to get me out of there and it was just funny how it all worked. I saw a cop car heading toward. .. I heard stories about the things they did... but they've never come so far inside our borders before." There's not even a man left alive to send word for help." I've never seen a raid. I never knew it was this bad... These people out here on the edge of the fief know they're taking their chances. That the army is far away. But this village is close to the main road... I'm sure they thought they would be safe." I'm sorry," offered Anna, looking into her friend's eyes."So am I," answered. ”The two men just watched him walk out.“Maybe we should have stopped him?” Dunning asked.“Maybe,” Robicheaux shrugged. “Fucking prick. It’s all I can do not to cave his skull in most of the time. Does he really think he’s the first swinging dick to go through the med-tubes? I swear, if he struts around any more...”Robicheaux blew out a long breath while slowly shaking his head. “I almost wish the guy down there would beat the fuck out of him for us, but we couldn’t be so lucky. Yeah, the little. He thought of his beloved grandfather that had lived to the ripe old age of eighty-nine and wondered at his secrets of success. He remembered the dapper old man would shave with a straight razor every morning and take a shot of whiskey every four hours like it was some elixir of life that sustained him better than fruit or vegetables.He didn't expect to reach that goalpost of life expectancy but it didn't bother him very much. His soul-mate Molly had passed the previous winter from some.