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Juan“Is there any way to check Eddie’s theory?”

“We can hack into the Responsivists’ coht turn up, but I doubt they’re going to break down their hty and who’s been nice”

“Try it anyway,” Juan ordered “Cross-reference the passenger manifest with e

verything they have going on Soled these particular people out If they weren’t about to leave the cult, it has to be so else” He turned to Linda “I want to knohy so many of them were in the Philippines at the saht be our only solid clue”

Juan stood to indicate thewas adjourned “We hit the Suez Canal at oh-five-hundred to Remind your staffs that we’ll have a pilot on board until we clear Port Said, so we’re running on full-disguise ine that sends smoke out our funnel are topped off, and that the decks are double-checked for anything that can give us away Once we’re in the Med, we have twenty-four hours to finalize our plans with Linc, another twelve to put everything in place, and then we extract Kyle Hanley Forty-eight hours frorammer and we’ll be on our way to the Riviera on that eavesdropping job”

There was no way for Cabrillo to kno far fro to be

CHAPTER 12

JUAN SETTLED THE EARBUD OF HIS RADIO A LITTLE deeper and tapped the throat mike to let the others knoas in position Below hi buildings surrounded by a ashed cement-block wall Behind the co a hundred feet into the Gulf of Corinth With the tide just co back in, he could smell the water on the soft breeze

The buildings were low-slung, as if clinging to the ground, reht The shallow roofs were covered in barrel tile that looked black through his third-generation night vision goggles, but he knew fro the tiles were red clay The laithin the coht, and the leaves on the few gnarled olive trees were dried husks It was three-thirty in the ically placed poles

He turned his attention to the wall It stood ten feet high and was a double layer of thick ceht hundred feet on a side As was the custolass shards had been embedded in the top of the wall to deter intruders Earlier in the day, he and Linda had gone to the only security co as an American couple who’d just purchased an ocean-side house and wanted to install an alarm system The store’s owner boasted he’d done extensive work for the Responsivists, pointing to an autographed eight-by-ten glossy of Donna Sky as if it were proof

The trip wire running atop the as one of the first things Juan observed when he got into position Next came the ca, they had spotted thirteen on the exterior of the buildings alone They could only assume there were more inside

There was a single rolling gate bisecting the stone driveway, and another, sate at the back of the facility in line with the jetty A pair of chain-link fences jutted from the co along the shore fro on Responsivist property

Although the security ive the co aura—but not froh the place was designed to keep people out but rather to keep them in

He scoped the grounds between the buildings once again Three jeeps were parked in front of the ines were cold There were no guards patrolling the paths crisscrossing the cos, and the caht poles remained stationary It was likely that there was a uard staring at a bank of monitors, which hy Cabrillo had the advance team keep watch froon to Athens

Linc and Eddie had needed only two hours, sitting across the coast road in an olive grove overlooking the facility, to map out the cameras’ blind spots and transmit that information back to the ship They had estimated that there were currently about forty-five Responsivists inside, although there were enough buildings to house twice that number in relative comfort