Drake and Amanda returned to his hotel room a short while later.  General Peterson had already dispatched his men to start searching the town, room for room, collecting any weapons, cameras and other equipment which they had classified as illegal.  He had also doubled the soldiers at both barricades at the ends of town, and had dispatched men randomly throughout the village and nearby forests as lookouts and guards.  With the main road now completely secured, and the mountains around them completing the task of trapping the residents of Hogsback in a seemingly inescapable fortress, they were indeed under the General’s complete control, whether they liked it or not!  The bodies of the victims of Friday’s bus crash had all been removed from the front lawn of the library, and had been taken to...

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