“Tessa Vance.

Julian Vance.

I am Special Agent Croft, with the Department of the Treasury.

We are executing federal arrest warrants for wire fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, and conspiracy.” I watched Julian’s million-dollar smile freeze on his face and then shatter, watched twenty years of carefully constructed respectability come apart in the space of a single sentence, in front of every camera in Colorado.

This was the deployment I had waited for.