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It had taken the CIA years to find bin Laden. And another half-year to actually get around to taking him down after “Maya” had found him.
She had three days to track a reindeer. Her total assets? One elf who didn’t want it to be known that he’d lost Santa’s most famous reindeer, Jeremy.
The first break came when they were questioning the other reindeer. They didn’t like having her around and were very standoffish, until she dug around in Horatio’s larder and found a bag of carrots. They warmed up to her quickly after that. Who knew that reindeer had a major weak spot for carrots.
A small portion of St. Nick’s deer herd—mostly the younger set—had gone south and west last spring, rather than south and east to their normal habitat in Finland. It turned out that reindeer had a particular
