Rise the Dark

For Michael and Rita Hefron, who introduced me to Montana and always encouraged my writing, and for my father, who kept the lights on, literally and figuratively. Sorry about this one, Dad.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

– Nikola Tesla

The mind of every assassin runs on a narrow-gauge track. But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

– William Manchester,

The Death of a President