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Portfolio/Penguin An imprint of Pen
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No man, for any considerable period
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20. The Dread Pirate Roberts 21. Ca
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Author’s Note My mother, who pass
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PART I
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look for anything out of the ordina
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pills that had been arriving, week
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Five Years Earlier
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hand in marriage (Say yes, please s
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Chapter 3 JULIA VIE Julia Vie’s f
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“Oh, no, no, no,” Julia said as
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American drug laws. “Take your se
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His hope was that this gig would le
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Chapter 6 THE BONFIRE Ross swerved
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As they joined the group around the
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Chapter 7 THE SILK ROAD Stuff, to R
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computer screen, he daydreamed that
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to push Ross’s intelligence, with
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“We should go,” he said to Juli
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at the University of Texas, and ask
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Chapter 10 WHAT GOES UP MUST COME D
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Now, rather than split his time amo
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enough, someone was. You could buy
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Chapter 12 A BULL’S-EYE ON MY BAC
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transaction. This would require rew
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libertarian theory. When the tête-
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Chapter 14 WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?! Tea
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Chapter 15 JARED AND THE FIFTY-TON
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themselves. The issue, Jared reiter
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A few days before he left for Austr
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Chapter 17 CARL FORCE’S TOMORROW
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Carl thought about it for a moment.
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Ross interacted with dozens of diff
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caught up in the conversation to se
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Then there was the challenge of buy
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Chapter 20 THE DREAD PIRATE ROBERTS
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What a brilliant idea. Ross loved i
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He soon realized that this site cou
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people, the risk was worth the rewa
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Ross’s cut from the commission fe
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Chapter 24 CARL, ELADIO, AND NOB Fo
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Chapter 25 JARED’S CHICAGO VERSUS
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The Baltimore attorney then explain
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commission,” Ross wrote in a lett
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world businesses when a CEO is oust
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Nope. Not going to happen. Carl had
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This place was special to Ross for
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Chapter 29 VARIETY JONES GOES TO SC
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him break a drug dependency, and en
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But if Ross wanted to keep growing
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Chapter 31 ROSS SILENCES JULIA Ross
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away. Heading into the darkness, al
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Chapter 32 CHRIS TARBELL, FBI A que
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took his SATs in high school he did
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After breakfast each morning, while
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other start-up in the city would ha
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There were two main aspects of the
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Chapter 35 BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES!
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For the backup plan to the backup p
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the site had grown, DPR’s message
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This wasn’t a vacation. It was hi
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When his new friends asked Ross wha
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Chapter 38 CARL LIKES DPR On paper
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are safe from the laws of your nati
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Chapter 39 KIDNEY FOR SALE! Ross st
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On the black market a person’s ki
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Chapter 40 THE WHITE HOUSE IN UTAH
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pup, tried to bite another agent’
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Chihuahuas. Green went on like a sc
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Chapter 42 THE FIRST MURDER Ross ha
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started to wonder if he might not h
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usts with physical drugs, not digit
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Portland, looked like she was going
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into the hospital room as they wept
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Chapter 45 GARY ALFORD, IRS The sid
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He started with the Gawker article,
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It was, after all, his legacy, the
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Chapter 47 GARY’S BIG CHANGE Ever
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to go and feed a parking meter. So
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you were only giving them half of y
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“Let me tell you a little parable
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your side” capacity—tried to wa
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Chapter 50 A PARKING TICKET ON THE
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Another search showed that Ross Ulb
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unclear what, if anything, was on t
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Chapter 52
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take a few breaks to watch Louis C.
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The agent asked again. “Andrew Fo
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Chris Tarbell had decided he wouldn
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By the end of Jared’s presentatio
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Chapter 54 JARED BECOMES CIRRUS Whe
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plastic. When the woman from Texas
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Chapter 55 JULIA IS SAVED! HALLELUJ
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Chapter 56
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Dylan waited for Ross to respond, b
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Chapter 57 ONWARD TO FEDERAL PLAZA
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Angels to have people killed, and h
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Chapter 58 JULIA COMES TO SAN FRANC
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She nonchalantly came up the stairs
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