Targets

The test had gone better than expected. Four out of the five trials were deemed a complete success. Forty-one people were dead as a result. To those behind the test, they were the right people. The people they had been aiming at.

A sudden wave of deaths from an unidentified illness drew the attention of the Center for Disease Control and soon after, the police. Was it a crime, or was it something as simple as tainted food?

In a world steeped in bigotry and hate, there were those who saw themselves as soldiers in an invisible war. A war they would gladly die for; a war they believed they had to win.

Detective Mindal wasn’t one of them. For him, there was only the law, and anyone who broke it, war or no war, would answer for it.