WHEN A 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL BEGGED A MAFIA DON TO PROTECT HER, HE DECLARED WAR IN BROAD DAYLIGHT

By the time the first motorcycle engine rolled low and heavy across Chester Avenue, Lily Harper had already learned what humiliation sounds like from the…

  The boy was still alive when the second-floor window turned orange. That was the detail Mike remembered later. Not the sirens that had not…

By the time the little girl touched his shoulder, half the diner had already decided what kind of man he was. The other half had…

By the time the little girl asked the question, the whole parking lot had already decided what kind of man Dane Mercer was. That was…

By the time the sirens started to cut through the wind, the boy on the asphalt had already done the hardest thing anyone would ask…

The command came out of the heat like a crack of lightning. Stop right there. The words were too small for the force they carried,…