“Somethin’s going on in the Crazies. Stock—cattle—been disappearin’ off everyone’s ranches. Stock disappearin’ usually means rustlin’, and rustlin’ always means trouble. Modern rustlers, they like to grab stock and shove them in trailers, get them as far as fast as they can. They rework the brand and slide on up to a backwater auction where they can offload the stolen beef. One stolen head can bring as much as five grand at one of them black-market auctions.”
