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These young e fro a house that had once been their frat house, now banned from the school because of an alcohol-related death not attributed to these four

Jacobi had sent photos of the men in alphabetical order to our phones We checked out the suspects: Neil Elverson, who had been three-quarters of the way through a degree in che out his senior year; Bruce McConnell, a theater major; Mac Travers, who had a bachelor’s in political science; and Andrew Yang, as a computer science whiz

They looked like kids Regular, cute kids hen combined, happened to have a powerful skill set that could be used to disrupt and terrorize and kill Individually, they had a history of posting angry screeds and radical coe boards

Until a few hours ago, nothing any of the four had said or done was illegal They hadn’t threatened attacks They were on no watch lists However, when one or more of them posted a video as GAR and took credit for an explosion that had killed twenty-five people, they crossed the line

The GAR video had gone supernova overnight, accruing millions of hits on all social oing after this rown terrorists to a tee

Had this group of angry for up Sci-Tron? Were they affiliated with Connor Grant? If so, had they been the planners and Grant the doer? Or were these four youngfor glory in this life and the next?

My attention was drawn to two careen assault vehicles, as sturdy as tanks, that entered the parking lot and stopped A ear fro of a man who’d been in the military for most of his life

He ca my name We shook hands and I introduced SWAT commander William Niles, aka Billy Bob Niles, to my seven task force cops, several of whom had worked with him before

We pulled ned the task force to points around the target as our perimeter

I checked in with Jacobi, and then our caravan pulled out

The sun hadn’t yet come up

Conklin asked, “What are you thinking?”

I shookain

CHAPTER 20

NILES’S ASSAULT VEHICLE was leading our caravan as we sped up Ocean Avenue at sunup