DAMED RIGHT- Excerpt

I pass three more cops the same way.  The last two are parked waiting for me but I burn them off.  The highway leads north to the border and they might figure I'm headed there.  Mayne thet'll have a roadblock waiting.

When Orestes killed his mother he was tormented clear across the known world by plague of flies.  That's what they claim.  Now they're swarming after me.  Lying in wait up ahead.  What's my terrible crime?  I just want to see my sister on my way to the center of the known world.  Since when was that a crime?  You could feel desperate if you thought about it.  Screw that.  I refuse to feel like a criminal just because I'm treated like one.  I'm no rebel. I'm just like you.  I want what I want, that's all.  I guess I just like to drive fast.  I'm an American.  I happen to live for speed.  How can anyone compromise?  I'm turning off before the border anyway.