The Man the City Swallowed

He turned and saw one of the black-slicker men slide a burned-looking detonator beside Ethan's tool bag and then drop to the ground as if he'd been attacked. Every camera caught it. "That's him!" someone yelled. "Drop the weapon!" a detective barked through the rain. Ethan stood under the bridge with blood on his hands and a ring of police lights around him. He had saved one person and walked straight into something deeper and darker. And the city had already started believing the lie.