Chapter Five: In the Middle of the NightThe journey back to Leo Hamilton's office became a re-enactment of the one that Sheriff Harris had made earlier that day with Harry Callahan. Neither Sherwin nor Clay said a single word all the way there. Sheriff Harris was totally immersed in his thoughts. There he was, driving his police cruiser with one of the living undead he had read so many things about in novels and comic books riding shotgun on the passenger seat. Not even in his wildest dreams could he have ever imagined that his boyhood fantasies would materialize this way. Of course, it was one thing to daydream you were a vampire hunter when you were twelve years old—and quite another to actually become one at thirty-eight, with the added responsibilities of being a Small Town Sheriff an

