Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Author’s Note vii
4. Prologue. The Deepest Silence There Is 1
5. Chapter 1 The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy 11
6. Chapter 2 Deliver Us from Evil 29
7. Chapter 3 To Kill the Last Killer 49
8. Chapter 4 “’Tis Not Alone My Inky Cloak ” 73
9. Chapter 5 Jokers Wild 97
10. Chapter 6 If You See Something, Say Something 125
11. Chapter 7 A Good Guy with a Gun 139
12. Chapter 8 I Cling to My Gun, You Cling to Yours 157
13. Chapter 9 The Fog of War in Peacetime 173
14. Chapter 10 From a Taller Tower 191
15. Epilogue. The Silence between Gunshots 201
16. Acknowledgments 213
17. Notes 219
18. Index 229