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April 2, 2019
Rio Chama, New Mexico
Ramsey awoke to the smell of new leather inches from his nose. His whole body ached. His brain was fuzzy. He shook his head to clear it and found that was the wrong thing to do. What happened to me? All he remembered was a shock tore through his chest and he felt as though he’d been picked up and slammed to the ground.
Bits and pieces of what happened came back to him then. I was tasered. That’s what happened. His thinking began to clear as his brain’s functions seemed to come back on line. The man holding the stun gun was familiar. He’d see the fierce pale-blue eyes when they met two days ago. It was the South African . . . Haas!
Slowly Ramsey opened one eye. He stared at the back of black leather seats. Sunlight glinted off a windshield. He hea
