They Broke My Wife’s Legs and Called It an Accident — The Sheriff Had No Idea What I Actually Did for the Army
And in that moment, everything reorganized itself in my mind, and I understood what the Prescotts, in all their small-county arrogance, did not.
They believed they had beaten a soldier’s wife to frighten a soldier into silence.
They had no idea what they had actually done.
They had assaulted the primary witness in a federal investigation.
They had put their hands on the one person in Harrington County whose testimony could bring the whole kingdom down.
And Sheriff Roy Prescott, who thought he thought he understood who I was — a broke, powerless, uniformed nobody he could intimidate across an oak desk — had no idea, none at all, what I did for the United States Army.
Chapter 6 — The Boring Title
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