who owe them cigarette money.
They don’t understand that when a man has spent thirty years at the head of a table that commands thousands of miles of highway, he doesn’t survive on violence. He survives on knowing where every dollar starts, where every favor ends, and who owns the paper between them.
Six hours later, the heavy iron bolt on my door turned.
It wasn’t Harlan.
Captain Donald Miller, the facility’s shift commander—a gray-haired veteran who wore a silver combat infantry badge pinned to his uniform shirt—stood in the corridor with two Internal Affairs investigators in civilian suits.
Behind them stood the prison’s civilian veterinarian, holding a clipboard.
”On your feet, Mercer,” Miller said. His voice was grim, but there were no cuffs in his hands.
I stood up, brushing the concrete dust from my knees.
”Where are we going, Captain?”
”Administration,” Miller said. “And keep your hands in
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