"And Then They Came..." (Postscript)
POSTSCRIPT I started working on “And Then They Came…” on or about June of 2019, after several of the people who had read “Justifiable Evil” asked me to write a sequel. At the time, I was writing the a fictional-historical novel about the Regimiento 65 de Infantería, (which I plan to eventually finish in a three-book series, each volume not exceeding 300 pages). When the pandemic struck us unexpectedly, I had already written about 200 pages of the sequel to “Justifiable Evil”,
"And Then They Came..." (Epilogue, Chapter VI)
Chapter VI With the passing of the days, the storm’s grim reality started to fade away. Many of the affected restaurants, malls, and movie houses gradually reopened. So did the gas stations, where at the beginning, long lines had formed very early in the morning to buy fuel before the day’s supply became exhausted. Cable TV worked—or not—depending on a patchwork of locations where the cable system had not been completely destroyed. Ice, that most precious of all commodities,
"And Then They Came..." (Epilogue, Chapter V)
Chapter V Lucas was discharged from the hospital nine days after his internment. He and Jeannie were driven home by Michael, passing over the short bridge where they had nearly been swept away by the overflowing current of Hurricane Fay. Jeannie looked at the channel, to see if she could spot her minivan, but it was nowhere to be seen. Either the swollen stream had carried it away, or it had been dragged out by the authorities. She preferred it that way, she thought. The dest
"And Then They Came..." (Epilogue, Chapter IV)
Chapter IV “So what do you think?” Lucas asked casually for what must have been the hundredth time, sitting on his bed after their nightly stroll through the hospital’s corridors. “I think that you’re doing great, and that they should be discharging you by tomorrow,” Jeannie replied. “That’s not what I mean, and you know it,” Lucas said to her. It had been a week since he had arrived at the Hospital de la Santa Trinidad, and four days since they had met with the Governor and
"And Then They Came..." (Epilogue, Chapter III)
Chapter III Da’ud, the chubby, bearded terrorist who saved Jeannie and her children from Enrique, was never found. About three weeks after Hurricane Fay, a farm in the south of the island where he had hidden for a while was raided by the police, but Da’ud—nor anybody else, for that matter—was caught there. The property had been deserted for at least the past two weeks, the resident of a neighboring household told the police. A video clip of the TSA screening area in the Luis
