Chapters 9 through 16 Summary

Alry Simmons and Robert Havens, two New York City TAC patrolmen, are in the Federal Reserve Bank to examine the condition of the building when they discover coin machines and bags of coins broken and scattered. In the basement, they find more than one hundred billion dollars worth of gold. An armed security guard is at the doorway, dead from the blast, a green band around his right arm.

Arch Carroll is driving home after his gunfight. As he drives, he keeps replaying the events. He'd told the restaurant owner that the men he'd shot were terrorists. The restaurant owner, looking at Carroll who was dressed the part of the street bum, then said to Carroll, "And just what are you?" Carroll arrives home to find his sister, Mary Katherine, still up. Mary K. cares for Carroll's four children, Mary III...