Summary

In Section 14, Brady makes some purchases. The reader is told only that one of the items is almost too large to fit in his mother’s hatchback. At home in his control room, he fixes up a box of explosives with a cell phone as a detonator. He plans to put it in Hodges’ car while it is parked at the funeral home the following morning.

In Section 15, as Hodges is mapping out the locations where the car thefts happened, Brady is putting his blocks of explosives into a seat cushion and a urine bag. Meanwhile, Jerome is listening to audio clips on the internet and finds one titled “crying baby.” His sister Barbara is modeling for her mother the outfit she plans to wear to the concert. Holly is wishing she did not have to go to the memorial...