Chapter 2Tuesday, October 31, Late Morning/ Early Afternoon The more he read the preliminary report Philippe and Anton put together the angrier he got. Alpha Thierry didn’t shout. He was the most even-tempered of the people on the council, willing to compromise, and he most often played the role of peacemaker. But he was shouting now. “Am I reading this right? His father was a firefighter, and they were on vacation. He heard sirens and got involved fighting a fire he had no business fighting and left his eleven-year-old son standing on the sidewalk.” “Alpha, it was only four years after 9/11 and Colin probably saw many of his friends without their fathers. He didn’t want to end up the same way, so he took off into the building to find his dad and a piece of molding that fell when a wall