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Chapters (62)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. Map
  5. Newspaper Extract
  6. Survive
  7. One Hundred Miles
  8. So Many and So Fast
  9. Start to Die
  10. Fish in a Barrel
  11. Because of the Blood
  12. Can’t be Real
  13. Waiting to Die
  14. Panic
  15. None of Them
  16. Trapped
  17. Video Game
  18. Like Her Life Depends on It
  19. Before He Sees Us
  20. It’s Your Lucky Day
  21. Just a Shell
  22. The World’s Best Reality Show
  23. How Long
  24. No Matter What Happens
  25. The One Who Decides
  26. What You Need to Do
  27. One Last Time
  28. The Biggest Secret Ever
  29. What They Want Me to Believe
  30. Who He Really Is
  31. People Like You
  32. I Believe She Is Saying
  33. Wake Up
  34. We Told You What Would Happen
  35. Slowly, Slowly
  36. Everything Is Under Control
  37. Come with Me
  38. The Last Thing They’d Expect
  39. They Can’t Shoot All of Us
  40. Go Down Swinging
  41. Not Running Away
  42. If You’re Going to Lie
  43. Every Rattle and Click
  44. Infinitesimal
  45. No Safe Place
  46. I Didn’t Know
  47. Straight to the Source
  48. Nothing but the Breathing
  49. Anything Other Than Killing
  50. You Honestly Believed
  51. Three Inches Away
  52. Not Anymore
  53. Refusing to Crack
  54. On the Trigger
  55. Over
  56. All Too Much
  57. Together, We Can Make a Difference
  58. A Note From the Author
  59. Other Mysteries by April Henry
  60. Honors for April Henry
  61. About the Author
  62. Newsletter Sign-up

“Exactly.” Javier smiles and hefts his gun. “They don’t need to know my gun’s fake.”

“That won’t matter once they shoot you and you can’t shoot back,” Cole says. “Besides, what can we do that the cops can’t?”

“Right now, they aren’t doing anything,” Miranda says. “So that means it’s up to us.” All this talk of cops makes her pull her phone from her pocket.

“What are you doing?” Cole asks as she starts typing.

“Telling my dad about the security guard. If the cops do try to come back in here, they need to know at least one of them is involved.”

Cole looks from one face to another. “I still don’t think it’s a good idea to try to go up against them.”

Grace’s laugh is bitter. “Do you really think we’re going to make it out of here alive? All the exits are locked and they know where we are.”

Miranda’s skin itches with the need to move, and it’s not just because of missing Oxy. “I don’t know about you guys, but I can’t hide anymore, waiting for it to end. We have to try. Try to get Amina and then try to get out of here.”

“I’m not leaving anyone behind,” Javier says. “Five of us were here in this room, and five of us are getting out of here.”

And at that even Cole nods.

5:43 p.m.

BRUCE MCGILL, INTELLIGENCE OFFICER, PORTLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT’S CRISIS NEGOTIATION TEAM: Have you watched their so-called manifesto?

CASEY HIXON, HOSTAGE NEGOTIATOR, CRISIS NEGOTIATION TEAM: I just did. A lot of echoes there of other far-right groups. Posse Comitatus. The sovereign citizens movement. Timothy McVeigh. The only thing they trust the government to do is lie to them.

MCGILL: And they think they’ll inspire a revolt against the government with that ridiculous piece of garbage.

HIXON: See if you can talk one of the local TV stations into broadcasting it. I’d like to use that as a bargaining chip.

MCGILL: What? We can’t do that. We don’t do that.

HIXON: There’s kids in there. And that means I would read Mein Kampf from cover to cover on live TV if they’ll just send out one child—one child.

MCGILL: Okay, okay. I’ll see what I can do. And I’ve just learned that if our RP really is Ron Skinner, last year he was investigated by the FBI for ties to an alt-right domestic terrorist group.

HIXON: Then why in the hell is he still working as a security guard?