“My job is to tell you what happened and carry out his final instructions.”

For the first time since the envelope arrived, I trusted Arthur slightly.

Not because he defended Julian.

Because he didn’t.

PART 5 — THOMAS MILLER

Julian had spent most of the last three decades under the name Thomas Miller.

He lived in rural Montana.

Not in a guarded underground compound.

Not in some dramatic fortress.

A small town.