CHAPTER 56 Alberto and Diego exchanged a guilty look. "I'm not angry, I just want to know what happened," I said, like a parent trying to extract a confession. "Care to fill me in, Alberto?" He cleared his throat. "You know how Kip's been trying to do something about that chemical dump in the Everglades?" "Sure," I said. "He reported it to the EPA." "His boss was pretty pissed about that," Diego interjected, "and Kip got fired." "Oh no, poor Kip!" My stress level never seemed to go down. All my happy endorphins had danced away, maybe to join the Rockettes. "And the EPA refused to take action," Alberto added. "Go on," I nudged. "Fast forward to the lethal weapon going off." "Right." Alberto nodded. "Kip wasn't about to let it go so he asked us to help him document it." "Because I'

