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The helicopter lands at a small airport in the Wasatch Mountain Range in Utah where Julie has been several times before. The pilot and co-pilot go one way, Julie goes another.
This is the Factory, a kind of private base operated by a military contractor, Retired Air Force Major Fritz Zimholt. Julie has met Major Zimholt a few times. He reminds her of her own badass grandfather, proud U.S. Marine, solid and dependable and unfortunately long departed.
The facility is mostly underground, built deep into the excavated hillside. The airport up top that’s visible to the world looks like one of those upscale regional airports that rich people fly into for their ski vacations and to spend the weekend at their mountain mansions.
But down below are the real works. An industrial warren where a
