No Safety In Numbers Summary

Antagonist? Chapter No.1 ******************************************* Think of this, you are stuck in a suburban mall that has a incurable super flu and going near someone is a death sentence, with no connection to the outside world. In No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz, we have four characters that switch around each chapter we have: Ryan, Shay, Lexi, Marco and at the very end we have the Senator. They all have one thing in common, they are stuck in a suburban mall with a biochemical bomb that contain a super flu, and to stop this super flu from spreading the quarantine the mall with over 3,000 people in it. It gets me thinking that maybe one of our characters could be an antagonist, and I think it is Marco.
Marco Is a troubled high
Marco was the first person to “discover” the bomb and I think this was a red herring because as the senator said the device was small and hard to even find ( Lorentz pg, 9) and the room was dark. Another thing, it did not seem like he was in there for long because he was trapped by Mike and had to run somewhere else. By saying he “found the bomb” could just be a sneaky red herring by Lorentz. If one of the characters was the antagonist that would be really smart of Lorentz because then she could easily explain the motivation of the antagonist and the protagonists, and maybe force the readers to pick and chose a side. He does spy on the hazmat people for a unrevealed reason. The reason I think Marco is possibly the antagonist is the way he is portrayed every time we switch to Marco the mood completely changes. He uses people to get what he wants, like when he saved Mike and his friends so they could protect him and help him get out, and those were the same people that terrorize him every day at his school ( Lorentz pg, 234). Marco general hatred of the world around compared to the other characters and his first discovery of the bomb and being basically one of the only characters to keep trying to escape mall, that makes me think that he the antagonist and the author is wants a big twist at the end of the book/books . The reader does not find out in this book that's why i'm excited for the future books to read and maybe find out who is our big bad wolf! Or maybe the author decides to include different point of views in the next books then maybe we could find the