The Banshee Chapter Page #3

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between 3:
00 to 5:00

in the morning,

and maybe cross your fingers.

That's it?

Doesn't sound so bad.

Yeah, that's it.

I can give you one of our receivers.

One more question.

Did you... Did you used

to work for the NSA?

Excuse me?

You know, the NSA.

You worked for them

as a code breaker.

Why do you say that?

Well, according to the NSA

employment verification contact,

Henry Cale worked there

from 1963 to 1979.

I wouldn't care to discuss that.

So, out here in the

middle of nowhere,

75 miles from the nearest town,

on the outskirts of the

Black Rock Desert...

Listening, watching

for the Lonely Traveler.

Happy times.

Don't know where

James was more than a friend.

Sometimes I find myself asking,

were you in love with him?

I guess I never really thought

of it until he was gone.

The signal is getting stronger.

That's weird.

Is anyone out here?

F***, they're watching.

You need to be more careful, Anne.

You don't know who's out there.

With that substance,

do you know who or what

James might have

been involved with?

Well, there was this strange

message sent from someone,

I think sent from his supplier.

They didn't sign it with a name,

but they signed it

"your friends in Colorado,"

which is exactly the same thing

that Renny Seegan

said on the police tape.

Oh, "friends in Colorado."

Yeah, "friends in Colorado."

Like the novel.

You know it?

Should I?

Mm-hmm.

Before your time, but it was a very

popular book in the late '70s.

Wait.

This is a Blackburn novel.

Yes. That's the way he

used to sign his letters,

the title of his novel,

Friends in Colorado.

Thomas Blackburn.

I... I know his work.

Thomas Blackburn...

an infamous, crazed novelist

risen from homeless, bipolar,

counter-culture activist

to literary icon.

His books were written

in a haze of pills, booze,

and, to some, schizophrenic genius.

He was a beast from a

less civilized era.

Thomas!

Hey, Thomas!

You're ruining my concentration!

He'd been arrested many times.

During an interview in 1974,

he tied the reporter to a chair

and threw him into the pool.

He isn't coming up!

He'd been arrested again

at the late Senator Raider's

reelection party in 1996.

Hey, hey, hey!

I'm press.

Press right here.

Hey, listen, ladies and gentlemen?

Uh, you're campaign contributors.

I just want you to know

that the acid in your drink

is gonna kick in in

about 18 minutes.

Thomas Blackburn?

Who's asking?

Hi. I'm a journalist

from risingjournal.com.

I just wanted to know

if I could ask you

a few questions about James Hirsch.

Have you read my latest book?

Which one?

The one called

"Go F*** Yourself"?

So Blackburn isn't talking

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