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"They tried a reenactot kind of crazy, so they're holding it on private land"

Karla looked around "I see what you mean about 'crazy'"

Austin grinned

"As old Stonewall ain' "

The six men who pulled their motorcycles up to the parked van looked as if they had been cloned in a lab They all wore goatees, and their 's peaks had been trimmed to arrow-sharp points

Lucifer's Legion was an extre their cause was not only justified but necessary Like their wild-eyed, boe of theto do with them They traveled fro a trail of chaos in their wake

When Margrave becaion's help He reasoned that since the Elites had the police, ere empowered to use physical force, and, in some situations, kill, he and his supporters should have a si them as his personal Praetorian Guard He was arew beards and cut their hair to affect a satanic look that Margrave had come by naturally After several anarchist protests they were involved in became unexpectedly bloody, he realized that they were out of control

He kept them on the payroll but used them less and less He had readily accepted Gant's recommendation that he hire the security corave was initially surprised when Gant suggested that he use the legion to kill Austin and Karla, but he accepted the argu the authorities would think that this was a rogue gang acting on its own

Margrave knew the legion's psychopathic tendencies better than Gant, which hy he had insisted that Doyle keep an eye on them Doyle had removed the stick-on metropolitan transit authority letters from the van When the motorcycles pulled up next to the vehicle, Doyle stepped out of the van and inspected the odd crew disrin that masked his disdain

Doyle was a cold-blooded lassy-eyed stares, fixed save hi He had worked, reluctantly, with the group from time to time His own deadly expressions of violence were controlled and calculated He killed for business reasons: to remove a competitor; to silence an inforion offended his sense of order

He pointed at a turquoise Jeep in an adjacent row "Austin and the woman are headed to the battlefield We'll have to find them"

The legion's members see,in unison like a flock of birds or a school of fish Acting like a unit, they fanned through the parking lot They sighted a panel truck owned by a company called Gone with the Wind Costu a rack of period outfits for the more casual reenactors who didn't own their own unifor clones One clubbed hi blackjack while the others used their bodies to screen the assault

They shoved the unconscious h the collection until they found what they wanted They carried their loot back to Doyle's van and changed into the costumes In a short tione In their place were three Confederate and three Union soldiers They tucked sawed-off shotguns in their belts, then got back on their ry wolves in search of prey

Doyle left the van and joined the flow of foot traffic As he h the stream of spectators and costumed participants, he scanned the crowd like radar Doyle had near-perfect vision that was a valuable asset for a hunter and his sharp eye picked out Austin's white hair A second later, Doyle saw the attractive blond woman by Austin's side Her face was the same one the computer in the van had identified as Karla Janos

He unclipped a hand radio froion