Chapters 25-27 Summary

Before the mission, chaplains came to visit with the Marines. The word came through that the mission was authorized and Maxwell flew by helicopter to Quantico to tell Kelly that they would leave that night. Since Kelly has until midnight, he goes to Baltimore and visits Sandy. Sarah is there and he tells them he will be out of town and can't tell them where. Sarah tells him that they know about his activities with the drug people, and he says he thought they would figure it out.

Sarah tries to talk to Kelly about the killing. He tells her that the police are infiltrated and can't be trusted. They wouldn't do anything about Pam because she was a prostitute. "He'd saved a girl who would otherwise have certainly died, but he'd killed to do it. He loved a girl who...