Chapter 24 Confrontations

• Agent Santos consented to meet them in a coffee shop in Federal Plaza downtown, the type of impersonal chain store that seemed perfectly impartial for a discussion that may lead to charges of federal wrongdoing.
• Grace needed time to calm down and gather her thoughts, so she arrived fifteen minutes early. Still wearing his chef's coat and bearing the weight of a hectic lunch service, Max arrived home from work right away.
• As he moved into the booth across from her, he questioned, "You sure about this?"