Section 24 Summary

The pieces unfold from Adam's memory. At his first memory, the bus ride, Adam and his parents were running away and going to a new place to live. The time they fled to the woods his father thought he saw one of "Them," but he does not quite recall who "Them" are yet.

His father's name was Anthony Delmonte and he had been a reporter in Blount, New York. His father's family had lived there since the grandfather of Adam's father. His father got a law degree, then attended Columbia University and then Missouri Graduate School of Journalism. He came back to Blount and became an excellent reporter exposing government corruption.

Adam's father and mother met and married in Blount, NY. She grew up a devout Catholic and by the time they were married both her parents were deceased. Eventually Adam was born...