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A production mishap
resulted in a small percentage of Act of Betrayal books shipped with
a blank page. Fortunately, it wasn't the entire last chapter that was
blank! If you have one of those copies, please accept my apologies,
and here's what you missed. 
Page 273 of Act of Betrayal
(Written as Morgan Avery)
Chapter 34
PJ got a puddle-jumper flight to Dayton. It
was a noisy prop plane that made two stops on what would otherwise have been
a short flight. By the time she got
into Dayton Municipal Airport, it was almost two in the afternoon. The
three segments of her flight had each been too short to serve any lunch, so
even the food in the vending machines looked good.
She was met outside the
security gate by an officer of the Dayton Police Department,
Robert-call-me-Rob Winnings. He was
younger than Anita and all smiles. She found it hard to take him seriously and hoped that she might
find an opportunity to dump him. It
was nice getting a ride from the airport, though, and at least the vehicle
was unmarked. The subtlety Wall had
promised was getting off to a fair start.
She asked Rob to stop for lunch, so he went through the drive-up lane
of a McDonald's on the busy strip near the airport. She had noticed the
signs for the Wright Brothers Memorial and the Air Force Museum and wished
it had been possible to bring Thomas on the trip. She
could have dropped him off and he would have been happily occupied all day.
But it certainly wasn’t a vacation, and the purpose of her trip was
deadly serious.
The drive in on Interstate 75 was
uneventful. She balanced her Quarter
Pounder in its wrapper on her lap, and shared her fries with the driver. Further
in, Rob pointed out other sights ... |
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