of the official record.
As I began to read the documents, the story Thomas had told me for twenty-five years began to dissolve. The accident hadn’t been an accident at all. The police reports mentioned a second vehicle, one that had been scrubbed from the final public statement—a vehicle registered to a shell company Thomas had owned at the time.
I opened an audio file, my pulse thundering in my ears. It was a recording of a frantic conversation. I recognized Thomas’s voice, but it was younger, sharper, and laced
