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.Ahead, FBI agents and an ambulance crowded the mansion’s driveway.Although the agents looked at Anthony curiously as he approached, none attempted to stop him.Valdez had granted him leave, but it would not be long before she would come calling.Beyond the driveway, around the stone pillar, Lisa waited in the Explorer.He got inside and kissed her lustily.“Nice to see you, too,” she said.“All in one piece.”“Let’s get out of here, sweetheart.”She started to twist the key in the ignition, paused.“Did you get it?”“We’ll see in a minute.”“What about Mike?”“I’m sure he’ll be hitching a ride with Valdez.”As she made a U-turn and sped away from the estate, he grabbed his notebook computer out of the duffel and powered it on.He plugged the flash drive into the USB port.The drive contained over thirty PDF files, each titled by year; another group of files was named, “Revelation Phase 1,” Revelation Phase 2” and so forth, seven phases in total.He selected a file at random.The document was over a hundred pages long.He read the first page.Missions Executed by the Armor of God in the Year of Our Lord, 2009Summary: 2009 saw a broad range of threats to the Kingdom, most related to our interests in new Kingdom territories across the United States.In total, 47 threats were identified, and eliminated.“Well?” Lisa asked.He skimmed a bit more.A pleasant chill skipped down his spine.“We’ve got it,” he said.“My God, we’ve got it all.”86Back at the family home, they found Danielle on the sofa in the living room, smoking a Newport and watching television.A box of Kleenex sat on the coffee table, wads of tissue scattered around.At their arrival, she mashed out her cigarette and stood.“What happened? You end it?”“Lisa will tell you everything,” Anthony said.He looked to the staircase.“Reuben upstairs?”“In his room.”“Did you tell him, Danny?”“I said I would.” Sighing, she eased onto the sofa again, and lit another cigarette.Anthony went upstairs and knocked on Reuben’s door.Unlike every other time that Anthony had visited his nephew, no music pounded from inside.“It’s open,” Reuben said.Reuben lay on his back on the bed, gazing at the shadowed ceiling, hands crossed behind his head.The only light in the room issued from the computer monitor.The web browser displayed the New Kingdom Church Web site; Bishop Prince’s bio filled the screen.Anthony felt so sorry for the kid that he didn’t know what to say.He pulled the desk chair over near the bed, and sat.For a couple of minutes, neither of them spoke.“Your mother told you about your father,” Anthony finally said.Reuben didn’t look at him.“He ain’t my father, man.He’s just some dude who got her pregnant.”Count on a youth to get straight to the point, no chaser.“How do you feel about it?” Anthony asked.“The guy’s a twisted motherfucker.Getting with girls younger than me? That’s sick, man.”“Your mom loves you, Reuben, in spite of what happened.I love you, too.I love you like a son.”Reuben shifted to face him.He looked so much like his father that it was disconcerting, their eyes the same shade of gray.But the souls reflected within those eyes were vastly different—Reuben was a kid, and he had a good heart.“It’s kinda weird that you called that dude my father,” Reuben said.“ ‘Cause you know, I’ve always sorta looked at you like you were my father, know what I mean?”“You have?”“Yeah, man,” he said, as if the truth were obvious.“Who else I got? You’ve always been there for me and Mom.”“Thanks, Reuben.I needed to hear that.” Anthony clapped his nephew’s shoulder.“Yo, you wanna sleep here?” Reuben sat up, examining Anthony’s face.“You look like you need to crash, for real.”“In a while.I’ve still got some work to do.Did you finish that press release blaster?”“Man, I was putting the finishing touches on it when that crazy dude jacked me this morning.But we could use it now, for sure.You got something you need to send out?”Anthony held up the flash drive.“There’re some files on here that I’m going to upload to my author web site,” he said.“I drafted a press release on my way here.I want to direct the media to a page on my site where they can find all the files.”“Aw, that’s easy.” Reuben grabbed another chair from the corner of the room and dragged it in front of the computer.“Let’s do this.”87Using the program Reuben created, Anthony sent a one-page press release to over ten thousand news and media outlets across the Internet, from CNN.com to MSNBC.com, from Reuters to The Associated Press, from The New York Times and The Huffington Post to The Times in London.Although New Kingdom dispatched web crawlers that canvassed the Internet and identified damaging content, the breadth and sheer number of media sources that Anthony contacted ensured maximum damage, in minimal time.By the time the church shut down his server—if the crush of media-generated traffic didn’t manage to do so—it would be too late [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]