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Chapters (79)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. One
  5. Two
  6. Three
  7. Four
  8. Five
  9. Six
  10. Seven
  11. Eight
  12. Nine
  13. Ten
  14. Eleven
  15. Twelve
  16. Thirteen
  17. Fourteen
  18. Fifteen
  19. Sixteen
  20. Seventeen
  21. Eighteen
  22. Nineteen
  23. Twenty
  24. Twenty-One
  25. Twenty-Two
  26. Twenty-Three
  27. Twenty-Four
  28. Twenty-Five
  29. Twenty-Six
  30. Twenty-Seven
  31. Twenty-Eight
  32. Twenty-Nine
  33. Thirty
  34. Thirty-One
  35. Thirty-Two
  36. Thirty-Three
  37. Thirty-Four
  38. Thirty-Five
  39. Thirty-Six
  40. Thirty-Seven
  41. Thirty-Eight
  42. Thirty-Nine
  43. Forty
  44. Forty-One
  45. Forty-Two
  46. Forty-Three
  47. Forty-Four
  48. Forty-Five
  49. Forty-Six
  50. Forty-Seven
  51. Forty-Eight
  52. Forty-Nine
  53. Fifty
  54. Fifty-One
  55. Fifty-Two
  56. Fifty-Three
  57. Fifty-Four
  58. Fifty-Five
  59. Fifty-Six
  60. Fifty-Seven
  61. Fifty-Eight
  62. Fifty-Nine
  63. Sixty
  64. Sixty-One
  65. Sixty-Two
  66. Sixty-Three
  67. Sixty-Four
  68. Sixty-Five
  69. Sixty-Six
  70. Sixty-Seven
  71. Sixty-Eight
  72. Sixty-Nine
  73. Seventy
  74. Acknowledgments
  75. About the Author
  76. Praise for Destroy All Monsters
  77. Books by Sam J. Miller
  78. Back Ad
  79. About the Publisher

It’s me, I thought. Sheffield knew how close Connor and I were. And he had plenty of reason to hate me, since I was apparently the only one who objected to or even cared about his little Ponzi Scheme of Infinite Cruelty. He wanted to mess me up badly by having my Friend with Benefits hurt me somehow. What an absolute—

“It’s Solomon,” Connor said.

Thunder, again. I gaped at him. Well, that made even more sense. And made me even madder.

“Of course,” I said. “That sadistic little shit. Well, you’re going to refuse. Right? Obviously.”

“That’s the thing,” Connor said. “If you refuse, it’s worse. Because Sheffield will assign that target to someone else. And he’ll devise the task himself. And it will be way more vicious than I would ever be.”

“This is all completely crazy,” I said. “I can’t believe you all go along with this. Have you told your dad?”

Connor shook his head.

“Why the hell not?”

“Sheffield told us not to.”

I groaned, in exasperation. “I can’t believe everyone on the team knows about all this, and won’t, I don’t know, call the police or tell the principal or something.”

“I’m doing something,” he said. “I’m telling you.”

“And what the hell am I supposed to do about it?” I kind of yelled.

“I don’t know. But I know you’ll do something. You’re the strongest person I know.”

Thunder. Lightning. Far away, but getting closer. I had a lot of questions. But I was too angry to ask them.

“I gotta go,” I said. Clouds were moving in overhead, looking like massive sea monsters getting ready to fight. I thought of the squid and the whale on the arm of the McDonald’s employee.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “You have to understand—it all started out really chill. Goofy pranks, things like that. I didn’t realize how out of control it was until—”

“Save it, Connor,” I said sharply. “You all have a lot of people to apologize to, but I’m not one of them.”

Twenty-Eight

Solomon

The night of the queen’s speech, a sky whale and an air kraken were fighting in the air around the bridge. A bad omen—certainly for the kraken, who put up a good fight but was clearly doomed from the start. The squid spewed black-ink clouds in a spiral from one end of the bridge to the other, as the whale chased it relentlessly around and around. The whale was black against the deep blue twilight sky.