Chapter Eight
Brother Jacob watched as the carpenter and his two assistants maneuvered his oak desk, on end, into the vestibule of the wooden church. Jacob wasn’t his real name, of course. He was known to the FBI as Allen Kozak, a criminal with a long list of petty crimes: larceny, credit card fraud, s****l assault, break and enter, endangering the welfare of a minor.
He had managed to sidestep two charges of statutory r**e when the under-aged victims didn’t show up for their court proceedings. And he had been caught fiddling two kindergarten girls he coaxed from the schoolyard with the promise of chocolate ice-cream. Kozak was a registered s*x offender. And now, at this late stage in life, he had found his proper place in the universe: The Spiritual Leader of the Brothers Zion. He inher
