Chapter 24
“You found an incendiary device under your boat.” Paul’s voice was unusually controlled—terse. “A God-damned bomb.”
“Yes.”
Annie and his mother were talking quietly on the porch. After he’d disassembled the device and packed it into a bag for analysis, he’d told her what he’d found. He was sorry he had.
“Yeah. Crude, but effective if activated. Look, I think I should keep Annie in here tonight, don’t you?” Mark was pacing back and forth in front of the house.
“Look, for what it’s worth,” Paul said. “I don’t think they’ll try anything else tonight. They’ll be waiting for an explosion that won’t happen.”
“That’s true.” Mark stopped pacing. “You saying we should go anyway?”
“I’d rather you didn’t, but frankly I think you should. It will send a clear message that you know wha
