Department Thirty
Prologue
Ryan Elder knew something was wrong the minute he stepped off the plane and saw his mother standing in the terminal.
She hated anything to do with flying and avoided airports with a childlike fear. This was Ryan's third year away at college and she'd never once come to the airport to see him off, nor to pick him up. That task always fell to his father.
Until now.
It was the day before Thanksgiving, the busiest travel day of the year, and people were elbowing their way quickly through Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport. Even the name of the airport made his mother nervous -- Ryan wished he had a dollar for every time she'd pointed out the folly in having an airport named after a man who'd died in a plane crash.
Ryan clutched his carry-on and folded his coat over his arm. Why is she here? he asked himself, then shrugged his way i ... read full excerpt from Department Thirty ebook
