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April 2, 2019
Taos, New Mexico
Ramsey stood less than three feet away from an overweight county sheriff’s deputy. The man’s face was ruddy from the unusually warm day and sweat trickled from beneath his white hat down his pudgy cheeks. He leaned against his cruiser with a bored expression on his face. Ramsey’s immediate impulse was to tell him what just happened.
When the SUV arrived at the lodge, press and television were waiting for the man whose identity had been revealed to be Pieter Haas, CEO of the DeVere Mining Group. Word had spread quickly that the lost hunting party was a ruse. The rumor that spread through the region was that the missing hunting party had been on an expedition to lay claim to a new diamond discovery. The excitement over the possibility had caused such a s
