Chapter OneWednesday Night/Thursday Morning
Melissa was curled up under a warm blanket at the other end of the sofa to Megan watching the ten o'clock news on television. President Rabin was on the steps of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, Israel denouncing terrorism and reaffirming his country's determination to obliterate and destroy the training camps in Lebanon.
“We will not run from our enemies!” he defiantly declared to cameras of the worldwide press. Pictures of the devastation in Nazareth followed his announcement.
“Is that what I'm doing, do you think?” Melissa asked the TV screen. “Running from this Frederick Mackinaw and endangering you both? I think I should have stayed at Number 12. The police could have covered the exits without any trouble and there was plenty of room inside the
