Chapter 22
Halloween. Seven days before the presidential election.
Terrorism is generally thought of as the use of intentionally indiscriminate barbaric violence to murder political enemies and or instill terror or fear among masses of people to achieve some religious or political objective. So it is for two things, murder or instilling fear. Can be both. It was the second component of the definition where the power resided. Instill terror or fear. What greater fear than that of the unknown? The bump in the night. One jolted awake from a deep sleep, a noise, foreign, abnormal, a noise from another part of the house, far away, but inside.
Under the bed. The closet. Something fell. Or did it? The shadows. There in the shadows. Was it my eyes playing... there, I saw it again. In the shad
