Chapter One
BUCK braced himself with his elbow crooked around a
scaffolding pole. Thousands of panicked people fleeing
the scene had, like him, started and involuntarily turned
away from the deafening gunshot. It had come from perhaps
a hundred feet to Buck's right and was so loud he
would not have been surprised if even those at the back
of the throng of some two million had heard it plainly.
He was no expert, but to Buck it had sounded like a
high-powered rifle. The only weapon smaller that had
emitted such a report was the ugly handgun Carpathia
had used to destroy the skulls of Moishe and Eli three
days before. Actually, the sounds were eerily similar.
Had Carpathia's own weapon been fired? Might someone
on his own staff have targeted him?
The lectern had shattered loudly as well, like a tree
branch split by lightning. And that gigantic backdrop sailing
into the distance ...
Buck wanted to bolt with the rest of the crowd, but he
worried about Chaim. Had he been hit? And where was
Jacov? Just ten minutes before, Jacov had waited below
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