At the Quietest Word (excerpt) Ricardo lay in the mud where the horse had tossed him and tried to ignore the cold rain slashing down on him. He still held his rifle securely in his hand, not that he had any live ammo for it. If he had to lie here much longer, he might use it as a club on someone—soon. Just another day in Delta Force, he kept telling himself. Except he wasn’t in The Unit anymore. This was all Isobel’s fault. Not the leaving The Unit part, but all the mud and rain part. Why don’t y’all come up to Montana? And, like naive chumps, they all had. When the great film star Isobel Manella called, everyone came—even her twin brother. Which somehow meant that he’d ended up crawling facedown through the near freezing prairie mud. One of the stuntmen on her movie had driven the t

