Chapter 38
“Holder. What’s going on with you? Holder!”
The voice was Duffy’s, in a warehouse turned into a warzone. Flames still flickered down below us and gunfire still raged somewhere else in the building. It was too much to process all at once. Kerry didn’t join Ultima Thule because her boyfriend was in the Double Bolt – it was the other way around, she must have brought the gang to them. She must have been one of the cult’s earliest acolytes, and Mike Croop was too. I had always had the impression that she didn’t really belong with us, that she was only slumming in our squat. Now I realized that she’d been sent there on a mission. Hunt down the unbeliever, the one who didn’t follow orders. Kill Mike Croop. Everything else had just been part of the front she put on to maintain her co
