Longarm and the Wendigo

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Jove/HBJ books are published by Jove Publications, Inc. (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) 757 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017.

Also in the LONGARM series from Jove/HBJ

Longarm Longarm on the Border Longarm and the Avenging Angels

Chapter 1

It was a glorious morning in Denver and Longarm felt like hell. The tall deputy squinted as he left the musty brown darkness of the Union Station to get punched in the eye by a bright morning sun in a cloudless sky of cobalt blue. A sharp breeze blew from the snow-topped Front Range, behind him to the west, as he walked stiffly east toward the Civic Center. The mile-high air was clear and scented with summer snow and green mountain meadows. Longarm wondered if he was going to make it to Larimer Street before he threw up.

At the corner of Seventeenth and Larimer he found the all-night greasy spoon he’d aimed for and went in to settle his guts. He wasn’t hungry, but ordered chili and beer as medication. The beanery was nearly empty at this hour, but Longarm recognized a uniformed member of the Denver Police Department seated at another stool down the counter and nodded. He’d only nodded to be neighborly, but the copper slid his own stein and bowl over next to Longarm’s and said, “‘Morning, Uncle Sam. You look like somebody drug you through the keyhole backwards! You spend the night drinking, whoring, or both?”

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