Q3 Outside Reading #5

Now that Sean is out of prison, things are really starting to pick up. They are starting to use bombs to prove their political points. In order to finance the bomb making, they've taken to stealing high end cars and selling them. Chris and his friends wanted to take it slowly so as to not hurt someone, but then Nixon announced that he was sending troops to Cambodia. Chris and his friends were against the killings so they started bombing places that were associated with it. With the bombing they left notes saying why they did it. "A BOMB TO HALT THE MONEY MACHINE. Nixon invades Cambodia. More blood on his hands. Bankers and arms companies pull the levers" (183). They took care that people weren't around when the bomb went off because it was against their politics to kill people. They bombed many places but the media didn't mention it. Then they decided that for the media to cover, they had to bomb somewhere known. Chris and Anna went to the restaurant called Top-of-the-Tower, a very fancy upper class restaurant. The media didn't know who bombed it, but they now started covering the other bombings, which is what they wanted in the first place.

In the present, Miles took Mike to meet Pat.  Miles wants for someone, whether it's Mike Pat or Anna to tell him about what happened back then so he can become famous by writing about it. At first, Pat didn't recognize Mike, or as she would know him, Chris. "Then she made the connection. I could see it happen, the loss of traction, the sudden skid on the ice" (205). Miles could blackmail Pat because she was trying to work in the government, he could blackmail Mike by threatening to tell his family and he wants to hear Anna's story because she was one of the leaders. After seeing Pat, Mike drives to go see Anna. He wants to know all about why she's alive when she was suppose to be dead.