Chapter 13: What Whitfield Wanted

Marcus Whitfield III entered the valley the way he seemed to do everything, Reese thought — like the ground owed him an apology for taking so long to arrive. He was younger than she'd expected, maybe forty, with the polished, gym-toned look of a man whose relationship with mountains was mostly theoretical, flanked by two crew members carrying camera equipment even now, even here, the documentary i...