1. Debbie rebooked her delayed Saturday flight out of Newark and will be flying into Spokane early in the afternoon instead of after midnight Saturday night.
2. I spent much of the day reading Lone Wolf, learning more than I ever had known about how law enforcement investigates bomb sites, work to reconstruct the bomb the perpetrator detonated, and how much they learn about the bomber from the details of the bomb itself.
3. I enjoy books that have a main river of a story running through them and that develop multiple tributaries to feed that river. In Lone Wolf, the primary focus is on Eric Rudolph's bombings and the extensive manhunt to track him down, but Maryanne Vollers also develops smaller (in length) stories about other bombers (like the Unabomber) and other violent events, like Ruby Ridge and Waco, events in which the same agencies trying to track down Eric Rudolph responded to those situations. I enjoy learning how the Rudolph case was affected by what agents learned, say, in their search for the Unabomber and it's affected by the excesses and huge mistakes these agencies made on Ruby Ridge and at Waco.
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