Chapter 27: Last Call

Forty minutes later I left the gun shop with a holster for Greg’s Sig Sauer 9mm, a Taser, and a 7-inch K-Bar knife. I stopped at a convenience store and picked up a pre-paid cell phone, just in case. Then I drove back to the law office of Martin Dawes and waited. It was just like being back at work, sitting around doing nothing, waiting for something to happen.

Martin Dawes’ office was about as well cared for as a highway exit. Martin, or whoever owned the single-office side street building, h...