Chapter 48: Ramsey

Sunshine Kindergarten was ringed with police tape. Patrol cars and uniformed officers crowded every line of sight. At the steps of the two-story classroom building, ten children-three or four years old-and a young teacher had been wrapped tight in duct tape. Bulky devices hung off their bodies, wired with multicolored leads-remote-detonated bombs, by the look of them-enough to make anyone's blood run cold. A tall young man stood behind them, eyes vicious, violence rolling off him in waves. He wore...