There are people with super powers called epics. Narrator's father thinks despite the fact this far all of them have been evil, eventually there will be good ones. Narrator is in the bank with his dad when an epic shows up and starts killing people. Another epic shows up and narrator's dad thinks hes there to save the day. Hes not. He's Steelheart and hes the emperor of this city. All shall bow down before him. Narrator's dad shoots him and it goes badly. Steelheart is basically superman and he can also turn stuff into Steel.
Ch 1 pg 23
It's 10 years later. Narrator is a grown man. He lives in what used to be Chicago with an awesome name, Newcago. It's bad, but most other places are much worse. Steelheart has been able to keep a semblance of order here.
There's an organization that goes around killing epics. There's an epic that can see the future and hes their target tonight. There's a sexy lady thats trying to lure him to a club where there's probably a trap set for him. But another epic seems to be wise to this and gets involved. Narrator rushes in.
Ch 2 pg 35
It works, narrator is able to get the other epic away so the lady can move forward with her trap. Problem is narrator tells this epic he works for a dead man.
Ch 3 pg 40
Narrator runs down an alley. Fortuity, the epic that can see the future comes back, but hes in handcuffs. The other epic gets shot by a sniper. Red dress lady comes back. She is thinking killing Narrator is a good idea but then he talks about all the stuff he knows and hes trying to help and she let's him live. But hes on his knees hands behind his back and the sniper is told to kill him if he moves. But then a bunch of thugs come and red dress lady is gonna die so Narrator pulls out his gun and shoots at the thugs.
Ch 4 pg 46
Narrator's name is David. He catches up to red dress lady. He gives her his gun and steals a car and goes after fortuity. There's some cool action movie stuff where David is chasing fortuity and red dress lady , who's name is Megan, is shooting and the windshield is destroyed and fortuity does cool flips. The end is that David is enough of a distraction for Megan to shoot fortuity in the chest.
Ch 5 pg 52
They are rescued by a garbage truck. They get away and go down into the steel labyrinth. David is a little excited he might be accepted onto the epic killer team. But one look at the garbage truck driver told him that wasn't happening. At best, he was a friendly captive.
Ch 6pg 60
They do a blood test to make sure hes not an epic. They ask who told them they were gonna hit fortuity. He says he figured it out on his own. He says he wants to join them. Megan seems to be for it. But the rest of the team is worried. So they leave him.
Ch 7 pg 66
As they leave her shouts that hes seen stealheart bleed. They come back to hear his story. This causes a sudden swap in Megan's demeanor. She thinks he lying and it PISSES HER OFF!!! But the leader is intrigued. He asks who he thinks theyre gonna go after next. Turns out hes close enough that theyre gonna change their plans.
Ch 8 pg 76
He talks about how all he does is obsess about the epics and the reckoners. Eventually this gets to him talking about how hes got notes at his apartment.
Ch 9 pg 83
At first doc just wants to firebomb the place and be done with it. David convinces him his notes are worth the trouble. David and Cody and Megan go to his place. Most places to live in Newcago nowadays aren't traditionally built. They're carved out of the steel that steelheart has turned the land on the northern half of Chicago into. David's room is one of these. It's quite extraordinary for an 18 year old to have their own room. David basically blew all his factory earnings on it so he can focus on documentation of epics.
They scope out his place and figure out there's a team there waiting to pounce with an illusion epic keeping them hidden. David concludes the epic must be Refactionary. Her weakness is smoke. The plan is for David to go inside and use this smoke bomb to expose Refactory and Megan and Cody will cover him from outside.
Ch 10 pg 95
The plan goes ok. One wrinkle is that one of the enforcers, Roy, knows David. David convinces him he had no part in the attack, he just heard there was gonna be an epic fight and was there to watch. When cody and megan start shooting Roy and one other enforcer make it out alive. David tells them an Epic named limelight is coming to take out steelheart. The smoke bomb thing doesn't work. Refactory isn't inside David's room like he thought she'd be. What David does is calls her with Roy's phone and cody and megan are able to take her out.
Ch 11 pg 104
Megan wants to kill Roy and the other enforcer. Cody is the veteran and says no. The enforcers are not the enemy. Epics are the enemy.
They make their way to the hideout. They tell David about the cool gloves they have that turn stuff into powder. Makes for mining through steel real good. Supposedly it can carve through anything but doesn't affect living beings. I need A LOT more explaining of that.
Ch 12 pg 116
The team goes through David's files and they are impressed. What doc isn't impressed with is David's plan to kill Steelheart. He tells David yes gotta convince Megan that its gonna work. That's gonna be a tough road to hoe as Megan still thinks David's story where he saw steelheart bleed is a lie.
Ch 13 pg 120
David talks about the other high level epics in Steelheart's organization and what he suspects are their weaknesses. His basic plan is to take out other epics and claim to be an enemy epic and eventually lure Steelheart out into a fight and then kill him. Lots of holes in this plan. But Doc is in and that's all that matters.
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