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This page contains a chapter by chapter summary of '''''[[Steelheart]].''''' We hope this summary will make it easier to find specific areas of the book, as well as providing a quick plot refresher for anyone who doesn't want to take the time to reread the entire book. Similar summaries will be completed about future books in [[The Reckoners]] series.

 

== Prologue ==

 

 

== Part One ==

=== Chapter 1 ===

10 years later, David hurries through the understreets of Newcago, which is in perpetual darkness thanks to [[Nightwielder]]. He climbs up some stairs to the overstreets, coming out near the Reeve Playhouse. Quickly ducking into an alleyway, he starts to watch the Playhouse. He's relieved when people start pouring out, indicating he was on time, with a play having just finished. [[Fortuity]], a [[High Epic]] with precognition powers, walks out of the building, dressed in a red suit with a cape and with a woman on each arm. David waits impatiently, based on intelligence from an informant named [[Bilko]], expecting the [[Reckoners]], a resistance group dedicated to killing Epics, to attempt to kill Fortuity. David's musings are interrupted when a woman in a red dress approaches Fortuity, distracting him from his present company and seemingly encouraging him to join her at a nearby dance club. The woman leads him towards a dark, empty alley which would serve as a shortcut to the dance clubs, when [[Donny Harrison|Curveball]], an epic whose guns never run out of ammo, interrupts them. As he keeps on gesturing back to the Playhouse, David guesses that Curveball is summoning Fortuity, and that if Fortuity went with Curveball, it would ruin the Reckoners plans. Not wanting to miss the opportunity of meeting the Reckoners, he decides to help out.

 

=== Chapter 2 ===

 

=== Chapter 3 ===

 

 

=== Chapter 4 ===

 

David kills three of the thugs with three shots, but the fourth thug escapes. David then catches up with Megan, who is pursuing Fortuity, and takes a shot but misses, and tries to have Megan help him lead Fortuity into a checkmate scenario which would nullify his Epic power. David steals a car and tries to stop Fortuity from escaping Megan but he shows superhuman reflexes by leaping onto the windshield then off the back of the moving car. David stops the car, and Fortuity returns to go after David, but he is shot in the chest.

 

=== Chapter 5 ===

 

 

=== Chapter 6 ===

 

The Reckoners submit David to scan and blood tests to verify that he is not an Epic. They then interrogate David about how he learned how they were going to take down Fortuity, and he explains that he used rumors and logic. David then tells them that he was there to join the Reckoners, but they tell him that they aren't recruiting and that they don't want to see him again, and Prof says they are just killing Epics, not changing the world.

 

=== Chapter 7 ===

 

As the Reckoners walk away, David shouts at them that they are negligent and cowards for not going after the upper echelon Epics like Steelheart, but they ignore him. He then says that he saw Steelheart bleed, and this gives them pause. David tells the story of the day he met Steelheart in full detail, which he had never revealed before due to the deadly secret that it contained. The Reckoners discuss his story and decide that it fits with what they know of events from that day. They interrogate David further and he deduces their next target, which impresses and alarms them. Prof changes plans and tells his team that they will instead remain in Newcago, in a safehouse known as [[Hole Fourteen]]. During the discussion, David realizes Prof's identity: Jonathan Phaedrus, the founder of the Reckoners.

 

=== Chapter 8 ===

 

As they walk to the safehouse, Prof tired of David's constant questions, and tells Megan to keep an eye on him while the others walk ahead of them.

 

 

=== Chapter 9 ===

 

Prof orders Cody and Abraham to blow up David's flat before Enforcement can get their hands on the notebooks, but David argues successfully that there is valuable intelligence that will help their own mission. Prof orders Megan and Cody to accompany David to retrieve the notebooks if it is safe, or destroy them otherwise.

 

 

=== Chapter 10 ===

 

David enters his flat, which he intentionally leaves messy to make himself appear as a lazy teenager, and retrieves an emergency backpack and his notebooks. He wonders if he should have brought these items along when he went to meet the Reckoners. Three Enforcement officers, of a standard core of five including a sniper and epic, run into the flat to arrest David. David explains that he was just following Fortuity out of curiousity but is told that he is in trouble due to the death of the Epic. The officers rifle through David's possessions and find his notebooks. David recognizes the voice of [[Roy]], one of the officers who worked in the same munitions factory as David, and Roy vouches for David's "hobby" of following the exploits of Epics. Cody shoots two of the officers, fatally wounding one, and David shoots Roy in the legs to incapacitate but not kill. David deduces that the sniper is already dead. David sets off his smoke grenade but it doesn't have any effect since Refractionary isn't inside the flat. He takes Roy's cell phone and dials Refractionary's phone number from the contacts list, and this enables Megan to locate and kill the invisible Epic.

 

=== Chapter 11 ===

 

 

 

=== Chapter 12 ===

 

Cody and Tia express admiration for David's research notes, and Tia inquires about his methods of classification, commenting on the strengths and weaknesses of his system. Cody comments that David needs to have a life outside of killing Epics, but Prof disagrees with this sentiment. They debate about whether attacking low-level Epics like Fortuity really achieves anything. Tia inquires about a unique photograph of Nightwielder appearing corporeal while in daylight standing next to Steelheart on the [[Day of Annexation]].

 

 

=== Chapter 13 ===

 

Megan and Cody raise several important obstacles to defeating Steelheart, including the difficulty in locating him, and his array of abilities. David says that one part of his plan is luring Steelheart into a duel, which would resolve the issue of finding him. He then states that he would take out Enforcement by going after their leader, Conflux, who is a [[gifter]] that uses his abilities to power the officers' power suits and weapons. They pause their meeting to watch Reinforcement, a pre-recorded daily broadcast by Steelheart. They watch as a video plays showing Steelheart blowing up several inhabited buildings with energy blasts. The video motivates Prof to agree to David's plan.

 

== Part Two ==

=== Chapter 14 ===

 

Cody and Tia verbally spar as David trains with a tensor. Cody says that he was a police officer in Nashville, but left his job after the Epics took over and corrupted the police department. Tia says that she is researching what happened when Steelheart was shot so that she can determine what Steelheart's weakness is. Prof shows up and tells David to accompany Abraham and Megan to a weapons dealer.

 

=== Chapter 15 ===

 

David, Megan and Abraham are accosted by a gang as they traverse the steel catacombs. Abraham challenges one of the gang members to a duel, and he accepts, then shoots Abraham three times, though the bullets are deflected by his jacket. Abraham shoots his opponent in the leg, dropping him, then bandages the man's wound and advises the thugs that they would be better off as allies.

 

 

=== Chapter 16 ===

 

David, Abraham and Megan are the first customers to Diamond's shop since his recent arrival. They browse the arsenal, looking for weapons that can mimic the powers of an Epic. Diamond shows David a video of the detonation of a stealth explosive disguised as a bottle of water. David tells Megan that he doesn't like being called a nerd because all the smart kids in his factory ended up working as Steelheart's corporate employees. Abraham purchases a gauss gun which fires charged explosive projectiles and a pen activated stealth explosive, in exchange for four DNA data samples from harvested Epics and a data chip. David smells an odor similar to garlic and realizes that Nightwielder is there.

 

=== Chapter 17 ===

Abraham says that Nightwielder knows him by sight, so that they must avoid encountering him if possible, and he goes to try to use a tensor to dig an escape tunnel in a remote part of the corridor from the "entrance" to the store. David wields Abraham's gun as Nightwielder and several Enforcement officers appear. They are disappointed in what Diamond shows them, and Nightwielder notices a blank space on the wall where the gauss gun was, and inquires about it. Diamond tries to claim customer confidentiality but then Nightwielder is distracted by a noise Megan makes. David tells them to continue and that he was going to improvise to create a distraction.

 

=== Chapter 39 ===

 

 

=== Chapter 40 ===

=== Chapter 41 ===

 

 

== Epilogue ==

Prof heals Cody, as they evacuate in their helicopter. David realizes that they have to fill in the power vacuum left by Steelheart's death, and help the people of Newcago.

 

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