Longarm and the Last Man

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Chapter 1

Longarm crossed his legs, uncrossed them, leaned back in his chair and yawned, and crossed his legs again. He wasn’t bored exactly. But he wasn’t real far from it either. It didn’t help that he was getting hungry now. He’d spent his lunch hour getting a haircut at a new shop over on Sheridan near the State Capitol Building that was the centerpiece of downtown Denver. But that had been a mistake. The barber obviously intended to cater to the desires of rich legislators, not working guys like Longarm. He charged fifty cents for a haircut. And over and above that thoroughly outrageous fee, he chattered incessantly about politics while he snipped. Longarm had no interest whatsoever in politics of any stripe or flavor, but a dandy who was waiting to be chopped on sure did. He and the barber got to talking, and it had taken damn near the entire hour before Longarm could get out of that chair and make his way back here to Billy Vail’s office in the Federal Building.

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