CHAPTER THREE
U.S. Marshals Field Office, Phoenix, Arizona
The Next Day
Alexa had never felt better about going back to work after a vacation.
Meeting with the Jersey Devil hadn’t given her the inner peace and closure she had hoped for, but it sure did fire up her enthusiasm for capturing bad guys. People like Thornton needed to be behind bars, and there were plenty of people like Thornton who weren’t.
Maybe she could fix that for a couple of thugs in the coming days. Her boss, Marshal Juan Hernandez, said he had a new assignment for the experimental collaboration between the U.S. Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. After flying back from the East Coast the previous night, Alexa caught some sleep and was up bright and early to get into Phoenix to hear what the ne
