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  As always, our grateful thanks and appreciation to Homicide Inspector Holly Pera and her partner, Joe Toomey, of the San Francisco PD for handling this stuff day to day, which we only write about. And for introducing us to Dino Zografos of the Special Weapons and Tactics Group, who made the dread of a ticking bomb something real and manageable. And to Sergeant Joe Sanchez and (ret.) Inspector Steve Engler of the Berkeley Police Department, who were there during the craziness of the sixties and who brought The People’s Republic of Berkeley back alive for us for a few hours, in its devastation and its dream.

  And for Chuck Zion, a rare breed if there ever was one, who died in the World Trade Center, September 11,2001.

  Part One

  Chapter 1

  IT WAS A CLEAR, calm, lazy April morning, the day the worst week of my life began.

  I was jogging down by the bay with my border collie, Martha. It’s my thing Sunday mornings—get up early and cram my meaningful other into the front seat of the Explorer. I try to huff out three miles, from Fort Mason down to the bridge and back. Just enough to convince myself I’m bordering on something called in shape at thirty-six.

  That morning, my buddy Jill came along. To give her baby Lab, Otis, a run, or so she claimed. More likely, to warm herself up for a bike sprint up Mount Tamalpais or whatever Jill would do for real exercise later in the day.

  It was hard to believe that it had been only five months since Jill lost her baby. Now here she was, her body toned and lean again.

  “So, how did it go last night?” she asked, shuffling sideways beside me. “Word on the street is, Lindsay had a date.”

  “You could call it a date…,” I said, focusing on the heights of Fort Mason, which weren’t getting closer fast enough for me. “You could call Baghdad a vacation spot, too.”

  She winced. “Sorry I brought it up.”

  All run long, my head had been filled with the annoying recollection of Franklin Fratelli, “asset remarketing” mogul (which was a fancy way of saying he sent goons after the dot-com busts who could no longer make the payments on their Beemers and Franck Mullers). For two months Fratelli had stuck his face in my office every time he was in the Hall, until he wore me down enough to ask him up for a meal on Saturday night (the short ribs braised in port wine I had to pack back into the fridge after he bailed on me at the last minute).

  “I got stood up,” I said, mid-stride. “Don’t ask, I won’t tell the details.”

  We pulled up at the end of Marina Green, a lung-clearing bray from me while Mary Decker over there bobbed on her toes as if she could go another loop.

  “I don’t know how you do it,” I said, hands on hips, trying to catch my breath.

  “My grandmother,” she said, shrugging and stretching out a hamstring. “She started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety now. We have no idea where she is.”

  We both started to laugh. It was good to see the old Jill trying to peek through. It was good to hear the laughter back in her voice.

  “You up for a mochachino?” I asked. “Martha’s buying.”

  “Can’t. Steve’s flying in from Chicago. He wants to bike up to see the Dean Friedlich exhibit at the Legion of Honor as soon as he can get in and change. You know what the puppy’s like when he doesn’t get his exercise.”

  I frowned. “Somehow it’s hard for me to think of Steve as a puppy.”

  Jill nodded and pulled off her sweatshirt, lifting her arms.

  “Jill,” I gasped, “what the hell is that?”

  Peeking out through the strap of her exercise bra were a couple of small, dark bruises, like finger marks.

  She tossed her sweatshirt over her shoulder, seemingly caught off guard. “Mashed myself getting out of the shower,” she said. “You should get a load of how it looks.” She winked.

  I nodded, but something about the bruise didn’t sit well with me. “You sure you don’t want that coffee?” I asked.

  “Sorry… You know El Exigente, if I’m five minutes late, he starts to see it as a pattern.” She whistled for Otis and began to jog back to her car. She waved. “See you at work.”

  “So how about you?” I knelt down to Martha. “You look like a mochachino would do the trick.” I snapped on her leash and started to trot off toward the Starbucks on Chestnut.

  The Marina has always been one of my favorite neighborhoods. Curling streets of colorful, restored town houses. Families, the sound of gulls, the sea air off the bay.

  I crossed Alhambra, my eye drifting to a beautiful three-story town house I always passed and admired. Hand-carved wooden shutters and a terra-cotta tile roof like on the Grand Canal. I held Martha as a car passed by.

  That’s what I remembered about the moment. The neighborhood just waking up. A redheaded kid in a FUBU sweatshirt practicing tricks on his Razor. A woman in overalls hurrying around the corner, carrying a bundle of clothes.

  “C’mon, Martha.” I tugged on her leash. “I can taste that mochachino.”

  Then the town house with the terra-cotta roof exploded into flames. I mean, it was as if San Francisco were suddenly Beirut.

  Chapter 2

  “OH, MY GOD!” I gasped as a flash of heat and debris nearly knocked me to the ground.

  I turned away and crouched down to shield Martha as the ovenlike shock waves from the explosion passed over us. A few seconds later, I turned to pull myself up. Mother of God… I couldn’t believe my eyes. The town house I had just admired was now a shell. Fire ripped through the second floor.

  In that instant I realized that people could still be inside.

  I tied Martha to a lamppost. Flames gusted just fifty feet away. I ran across the street to the blazing home. The second floor was gone. Anyone up there didn’t have a chance.

  I fumbled through my fanny pack for the cell phone. Frantically, I punched in 911. “This is Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer, San Francisco Police Department, Shield two-seven-two-one. There’s been an explosion at the corner of Alhambra and Pierce. A residence. Casualties likely. Need full medical and fire support. Get them moving!”

  I cut off the dispatcher. Procedure told me to wait, but if anyone was in there, there was no time. I ripped off my sweatshirt and wrapped it loosely around my face. “Oh, Jesus Christ, Lindsay,” I said, and held my breath.

  Then I pushed my way into the burning house.

  “Is anyone there?” I shouted, choking immediately on the gray, raspy smoke. The intense heat bit at my eyes and face, and it hurt just to peek out from the protective cloth. A wall of burning Sheetrock and plaster hung above me.

  “Police!” I shouted again. “Is anyone there?”

  The smoke felt like sharp razors slicing into my lungs. It was impossible to hear above the roar of the flames. I suddenly understood how people trapped in fires on high floors would leap to their death rather than bear the intolerable heat.

  I shielded my eyes, pushing my way through the billowing smoke. I hollered a last time, “Is anyone alive in here?”

  I couldn’t go any farther. My eyebrows were singed. I realized I could die in there.

  I turned and headed for the light and cool that I knew were behind me. Suddenly, I spotted two shapes, the bodies of a woman and a man. Clearly dead, their clothes on fire.

  I stopped, feeling my stomach turn. But there was nothing I could do for them.

  Then I heard a muffled noise. I didn’t know if it was real. I stopped, tried to listen above the rumble of the fir
e. I could hardly bear the pain of the blistering heat on my face.

  There it was again. It was real, all right.

  Someone was crying.

  Chapter 3

  I GULPED AIR and headed deeper into the collapsing house. “Where are you?” I called. I stumbled over flaming rubble. I was scared now, not only for whoever had cried but for myself.

  I heard it again. A low whimpering from somewhere in the back of the house. I made straight for it. “I’m coming!” I shouted. To my left, a wooden beam crashed. The farther I went, the more trouble I was in. I spotted a hallway where I thought the sounds came from, the ceiling teetering where the second story used to be.

  “Police!” I yelled. “Where are you?”

  Nothing.

  Then I heard the crying again. Closer this time. I stumbled down the hallway, blanketing my face. C’mon, Lindsay… Just a few more feet.

  I pushed through a smoking doorway. Jesus, it’s a kid’s bedroom. What was left of it.

  A bed was overturned on its side up against a wall. It was smothered in thick dust. I shouted, then heard the noise again. A muffled, coughing sound.

  The frame of the bed was hot to the touch, but I managed to budge it a little bit from the wall. Oh, my God… I saw the shadowy outline of a child’s face.

  It was a small boy. Maybe ten years old.

  The child was coughing and crying. He could barely speak. His room was buried under an avalanche of debris. I couldn’t wait. Any longer and the fumes alone would kill us.

  “I’m gonna get you out of here,” I promised. Then I wedged myself between the wall and the bed and, with all my strength, pried it away from the wall. I took the boy by the shoulders, praying I wasn’t doing him harm.

  I stumbled through the flames, carrying the boy. Smoke was everywhere, searing and noxious. I saw a light where I thought I had come in, but I didn’t know for sure.

  I was coughing, the boy clinging to me with his petrified grip. “Mommy, mommy,” he was crying. I squeezed him back, to let him know I wasn’t going to let him die.

  I screamed ahead, praying that someone would answer. “Please, is anyone there?”

  “Here,” I heard a voice through the blackness.

  I stumbled over debris, avoiding new hot spots flaming up. Now I saw the entrance. Sirens, voices. The shape of a man. A fireman. He gently took the boy out of my arms. Another fireman wrapped his arms around me. We headed outside.

  Then I was out, dropping to my knees, sucking in mouthfuls of precious air. An EMT carefully put a blanket around me. Everyone was being so good, so professional. I collapsed against a fire truck up on the sidewalk. I almost threw up, then I did.

  Someone put an oxygen mask over my mouth and I took several deep gulps. A fireman bent over me. “Were you inside when it went?”

  “No.” I shook my head. “I went in to help.” I could barely talk, or think. I opened my fanny pack and showed him my badge. “Lieutenant Boxer,” I said, coughing. “Homicide.”

  Chapter 4

  “I’M ALL RIGHT,” I said, forcing myself out of the EMT’s grasp. I made my way over to the boy, who was already strapped onto a gurney. He was being wheeled into a van. The only motion in his face was a slight flickering in his eyes. But he was alive. My God, I had saved his life.

  Out on the street, onlookers were being ringed back by the police. I saw the redheaded kid who’d been riding his Razor. Other horrified faces crowded around.

  All of a sudden I became aware of barking. Jesus, it was Martha, still tied to the post. I ran over to her and hugged her tightly as she licked my face.

  A fireman made his way to me, a division captain’s crest on his helmet. “I’m Captain Ed Noroski. You okay?”

  “I think so,” I said, not sure.

  “You guys in the Hall can’t be heroes enough on your own shift, Lieutenant?” Captain Noroski said.

  “I was jogging by. I saw it blow. Looked like a gas explosion. I just did what I thought was right.”

  “Well, you did good, Lieutenant.” The fire captain looked at the wreckage. “But this was no gas explosion.”

  “I saw two bodies inside.”

  “Yeah,” Noroski said, nodding. “Man and a woman. Another adult in a back room on the first floor. That kid’s lucky you got him out.”

  “Yeah,” I said. My chest was filling with dread. If this was no gas explosion…

  Then I spotted Warren Jacobi, my number one inspector, coming out of the crowd, badging his way over to me. Warren had the “front nine,” what we call the Sunday morning shift when the weather gets warm.

  Jacobi had a paunchy ham hock of a face that never seemed to smile even when he told a joke, and deep, hooded eyes impossible to light up with surprise. But when he fixed on the hole where 210 Alhambra used to be and saw me, sooty, smeared, sitting down, trying to catch my breath—Jacobi did a double take.

  “Lieutenant? You okay?”

  “I think so.” I tried to pull myself up.

  He looked at the house, then at me again. “Seems a bit run-down, even for your normal fixer-upper, Lieutenant. I’m sure you’ll do wonders with it.” He held in his grin. “We have a Palestinian delegation in town I know nothing about?”

  I told him what I had seen. No smoke or fire, the second floor suddenly blowing out.

  “My twenty-seven years on the job gives me the premonition we’re not talking busted boiler here,” said Jacobi.

  “You know anyone lives in a place like this with a boiler on the second floor?”

  “No one I know lives in a place like this. You sure you don’t want to go to the hospital?” Jacobi bent down over me. Ever since I’d taken a shot in the Coombs case, Jacobi’d become like a protective uncle with me. He had even cut down on his stupid sexist jokes.

  “No, Warren, I’m all right.”

  I don’t even know what made me notice it. It was just sitting there on the sidewalk, leaning up against a parked car, and I thought, Shit, Lindsay, that shouldn’t be there.

  Not with everything that had just gone on.

  A red school knapsack. A million students carry them. Just sitting there.

  I started to panic again.

  I’d heard of secondary explosions in the Middle East. If it was a bomb that had gone off in the house, who the hell knew? My eyes went wide. My gaze was fixed on the red bag.

  I grabbed Jacobi. “Warren, I want everyone moved back away from here, now. Move everybody back, now!”

  Chapter 5

  FROM THE BACK of a basement closet, Claire Washburn pulled out an old, familiar case she hadn’t seen in years. “Oh, my God…”

  She had woken up early that morning, and after a cup of coffee on the deck, hearing the jays back for the first time that season, she threw on a denim shirt and jeans and set out on the dreaded task of cleaning out the basement closet.

  First to go were the stacks of old board games they hadn’t played in years. Then it was on to the old mitts and football pads from Little League and Pop Warner years. A quilt folded up that was now just a dust convention.

  Then she came upon the old aluminum case buried under a musty blanket. My God.

  Her old cello. Claire smiled at the memory. Good Lord, it had been ten years since she’d held it in her hands.

  She yanked it from the bottom of the closet. Just seeing it brought back a swell of memories: hours and hours of learning the scales, practicing. “A house without music,” her mother used to say, “is a house without life.” Her husband Edmund’s fortieth birthday, when she had struggled through the first movement of Haydn’s Concerto in D—the last time she had played.

  Claire unsnapped the clips and stared at the wood grain on the cello. It was still beautiful, a scholarship gift from the music department at Hampton. Before she realized she would never be a Yo-Yo Ma and headed to med school, it had been her most cherished possession.

  A melody popped into her head. That same, difficult passage that had always eluded her. The fir
st movement of Haydn’s Concerto in D. Claire looked around, as if embarrassed. What the hell, Edmund was still sleeping. No one would hear.

  Claire lifted her cello out of the felt mold. She took out the bow, held it in her hands. Wow…

  A long minute of tuning, the old strings stretching back into their accustomed notes. A single pass, just running the bow along the strings, brought back a zillion sensations. Goose bumps. She played the first bars of the concerto. Sounded a little off, but the feel came back to her. “Ha, the old girl’s still got it,” she said with a laugh. She closed her eyes and played a little more.

  Then she noticed Edmund, still in his pajamas, watching her, standing at the bottom of the stairs. “I know I’m out of bed”—he scratched his head—“I remember putting on my glasses, even brushing my teeth. But it can’t be, ’cause I must be dreaming.”

  Edmund hummed the opening bars that Claire had just played. “So, you think you can finish off the next passage? That’s the tricky part.”

  “Is that a dare, Maestro Washburn?”

  Edmund smiled mischievously.

  It was then that the phone rang. Edmund picked up a cordless on the handset. “Saved by the bell,” he groaned. “It’s the office. On Sunday, Claire. Can’t they ever give you a break?”

  Claire took the phone. It was Freddie Rodriguez, a staffer at the M.E.’s office. Claire listened, then she set down the phone.

  “My God, Edmund… there’s been an explosion downtown! Lindsay’s been hurt.”

  Chapter 6

  I DON’T KNOW what took hold of me. Maybe it was the thought of the three dead people in the house, or all the cops and firemen charging around the accident scene. I stared at that knapsack, and my brain was shouting out that it was wrong—dead wrong. “Everyone get back!” I yelled again.

 

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