Chapter 57
I walked the perimeter of the mayor’s lake house, and soon discovered that I had made a potentially fatal miscalculation about the number of surviving Ultima Thule members.
According to Ovide there were only twelve, but I had killed eleven of them myself – Frank on my first visit to the fairground, then the gate guard during the fairground raid, the two men I chased into the minefield and seven here at the lake house. Pete had also killed Billy in Red Dragon Records, and the two of them seemed to think the Feds had either killed or arrested several others at their fallback point. Based on those numbers, Ultima Thule should be down to negative enrollment figures at this point.
And yet there were more of them inside the house. Two more in the poolroom, one on the back patio, on
