Everything you file there, they see first, and they have a four-day head start on every document.”

That was the whole of the strategy.

It is not clever.

It fits on an index card.

Do not fight this where they are.

Part Seven: Sixteen Seconds

It came on the Friday, day six, from a number I did not know, and the message said only: this is nita. dont call this number. i took this. im sorry.

Renata Gaddis is Cade’s daughter.