title: Shooting from the Outside
author: Tara Vanderveer
description: Joan Ryan is an internationally known sports a columnist for the <em>San Francisco Chronicle.<em> Her articles and columns have garnered her many awards including the National Headliner Award in 1990 for excellence in sports writing. She lives in Ross, California, with her husband and sons.
  						    	
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  ### Prologue
  
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  Warm summer air swam over Tanya as she stepped out into the night. It was
  cooler than it had been earlier in the day, but still hot compared to the air-
  conditioned coffee shop. She sucked in the humid air as she started across the
  pavement, her eyes moving around the nearly empty parking lot, noting the van
  now parked beside her eighteen-wheeler. Hers had been the only vehicle when
  she'd stopped here for a coffee break after her long haul. She'd also been the
  only patron in the coffee shop until a few minutes ago when the owner of that
  van had entered. His arrival was why she'd left. The man