Tonopah, Nevada (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"The fab facility was far from the Xymos headquarters. It was literally in the middle of nowhere—out in the desert near Tonopah, Nevada."

"New York: what sense did that make? An eighteen-year-old girl from Silver Wells, Nevada, graduates from the Consolidated Union High School in Tonopah and goes to New York to take acting lessons, how do you figure it?"

"What had she been doing in New York at the instant her mother lost control of the car outside Tonopah. What was she doing in Tonopah anyway."

"It was dawn before she reached Vegas and, because she stopped in Vegas to buy cigarettes, eight o’clock before she reached Tonopah. She was not sure what she had meant to do in Tonopah."