Chapter One
Looking down from the cafe window at the man he'd just shot, Ed Cade saw the
brilliant overhead flash reflected in the windows of the hotel across the street
and realized that something -- likely the car -- had exploded above the city.
Some guy dressed as a knight was standing smack in the middle of the street,
aiming a camera of some sort straight up at the sky. The light turned green at
the intersection and the guy almost tripped over his sword trying to scramble
out of the street.
Cade stepped back from the window and looked to his left and right. There
was only the Atlanta cop -- Avery -- standing next to him on the right. On his
left, one person still sat by the windows, apparently frozen in stark, staring
terror.
"Get away from the windows," said Cade.
Avery stepped back as Cade grabbed the frozen guy's coat to pull him to his
feet and insistently repeated, "Get away from the window, dammit!"
The man's eyes fixed on Cade's Glock and he said nothing, but as bits of
debris pelted down on the street outside the window, he stood quickly on shaky
legs and tried to comply.
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