And, for obvious reasons, “no guns carried by visitors” was one of the biggies. She felt a little naked without the twin pistols, but prisons had rules. It took ten minutes to clear security, where she had to forfeit both her weapons: the Glock 23, her main gun, and an eight-shot Beretta Nano, the backup she kept in an ankle holster. Her shiny FBI shield was clipped to her jacket lapel. Pine was dressed all in black except for her white blouse. Collectively, they had slaughtered thousands of people, without a smidgen of remorse. They were, to a man, the stuff of nightmares. Now, after her swift journey, she sat in the prison parking lot gathering both her nerve and her courage to see one particular monster who resided here among many other human abominations.

She had spent two years restoring it with the original owner, a veteran FBI agent who had been an informal mentor to her shortly after she’d finished her training at Quantico. The “death” reference was spot-on, though the place reeked of it by virtue of the crimes committed by the inmates housed there.įBI Special Agent Atlee Pine had driven pedal-to-the-metal to get here in her modern-day version of a horse: a turquoise 1967 Mustang with a parchment convertible top. Only this “valley” was in Colorado, at ADX Florence, America’s only federal supermax prison. ONCE MORE SHE RODE into the Valley of Death.

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