At the house where the Satanists were planning their ceremony, the security wasn't all that strong:

"They knew that their fellow citizens, in this brave new century, chose to be unaware of them, to consign their master and them to the realm of myth. No one would come looking for them because no one believed in their existence."

When Odd Thomas spies on the Satanists gathering, he sees "a well-known film actor, a United States senator, and a couple other faces that were familiar but that I couldn't identify."

"...they were protected by their master, the rebel angel who was the prince of this world, to whom they had pledged everything. He said that they were untouchable. And perhaps they trusted one another not to steal and not to betray them with video on the Internet because when they had joined the dark-siders, they had surrendered their free will and no longer had the capacity to change their minds and betray the cult. A satanic society, after all, would operate as the ultimate totalitarianism."

Not that this story has anything to do with real life. Nah!

If you are intrigued, happy reading!