Chapter Twenty
One week later, somewhere in Texas …
Robert Candle drove down a lone, long highway in West Texas, his hands gripping the steering wheel of his car so tightly that he could barely feel them. He paid little attention to the tree-shaped air freshener dangling beneath his rearview mirror or to the fact that he was driving well above the speed limit and probably wouldn't be able to slow down long enough to stop in case a person or animal walked onto the road in front of him. Such a collision would almost certainly kill him or at least put him back into the hospital.
Maybe I want to die, Robert thought, though even he wasn't sure if he really wanted that or not.
He was thinking about his mother's death, which he had learned from a news report on Neo Ranks that stated that his
