For as long as Boyd can remember, he's been pushing pins into a map. Carson City, Las Vegas, Albuquerque -- all places he wants to see, for a dozen different reasons that wouldn't mean a thing to anyone else. When he finally gets a chance to purchase the '70 Plymouth Duster of his dreams, at a price that even he can manage, Boyd jumps at the opportunity.<br><br>Oliver seems like just another kid with a broken dream when their paths cross in Vegas. Against Boyd's better judgment, he offers to let Oliver hitch along for the ride when Oliver confides the need to get out and get gone.<br><br>But isn’t long before Boyd realizes Oliver's reasons for running are more complicated -- and more dangerous -- than Oliver let on. Boyd doesn't like people who play hardball, and he definitely doesn't like people messing with a man who's managed to light a fuse that Boyd forgot he had.

Road Trip

Oliver licked his lips. “What do I tell the cops about Vegas? Or why I know them?”


“You come up with whatever you need to tell on your side about how you know those two. Maybe you rented from them. Maybe you met them at a nightclub. Stick as close to the truth as you can and be sure to bring in things that other people can validate. Places where they would have seen you together. You want to mention the drugs, you mention the drugs. You don’t, you don’t. However, you want to lay it out that you owed these guys money, that’s what you do. I, on the other hand, don’t know anything but for the fact I dropped you off and I went for lunch.”


Chapter 44