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Chapter Nine

This is one chapter where I really had to tone down the humor. I toned it down throughout the book, but having it in here seemed less like comic relief and more like Eric’s a flippant jerk.

Pulmonary barotrauma is a very rare condition, because it requires that the victim be within five meters of the explosive -- and generally, if someone is that close, they’ll probably be dead before they can get barotrauma.

Also, it can only be caused by the use of high explosives, such as TNT, C-4, Nitroglycerin, or something similar; improvised explosives, like pipebombs or gunpowder or petroleum-based bombs, don’t lead to the same air-pressure patterns. Thus we see that the bomb in the moped was high-explosive, and therefore placed by someone with access to that kind of thing. Huzzah! A little known fact, which might have added a modicum of interest to the .001 percent of the population who’s familiar with pulmonary barotrauma.

In Tangled Web, Rebekah spends almost all of the book being sick, and consequently she’s not out and about, sleuthing. But, like I said, I like Rebekah, so in The Counterfeit she got put back in.

The radar-detector/bomb thing is true, kinda. The Irish Republican Army used to use radio detonators to set off their bombs, but the British found some way to block those radio signals. So, instead, the IRA would use a radar detector as the detonator, and set it off with a radar gun. It was an interesting fact I’d heard somewhere, and thought I’d throw it in.

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