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“Hali,” Juan said, “you can transfer Barbara’s call to your station Good work getting everyone conferenced in”
When he saw everyone looking at hirin “Thanks, Chairman Happy to help”
Good Overholt on it alone
“This went far beyond what I was expecting when I gave you this mission,” Overholt said “But now there’s obviously ent While the ates how the island’s electronics were disabled out of the blue, I want you to find out why Diego Garcia was targeted in the first place”
Juan nodded “I think we’ll start by trying to find out why Rasul was hired to kill Tao and the Triton Star crew and then frame them for mass murder”
TWELVE
SYDNEY
Jason Wakefield stalked out of the Vedor Telecom tower in don Sydney while he spoke on his encrypted cell phone, the only one he used to call other members of the Nine Unknown As the beneficiary of the Scroll of Knowledge for coenerations from Ashoka, he had built Vedor Co empire On the other end of the line was Lionel Gupta, a Canadian descendant of the original Unknoho had been bestoith the alcheest engineering companies in the world
“You’re telling me,” Gupta said in the snarky tone he was fah you own phone networks around the world, including Italy, you haven’t been able to find out any info about who ed the Colossus 5 in Naples? Not even where the phones used to detonate the explosives came from?”
Wakefield caught his reflection in the mirroredof his Maybach limousine as it pulled up to the entrance of the rated to Australia, anglicized his nahter of a New South Wales newspaper owner, so he was e of Wakefield’s slick black hair, deep tan, and Savile Row suit would be faes about his six divorces, the last of which was still in its final stages While his bodyguard held the door for him, he adjusted a stray hair and plucked a piece of lint frouard sat in the front passenger seat, and they pulled away
As usual, the backseat TV was tuned to the local Unliinning, the screen ablaze with slick graphics and the slogan You and I and UNI Wakefield muted the sound and closed the soundproof partition before responding to Gupta
“It’s been only forty-eight hours since the attack on the ship,” Wakefield said, exasperated at Gupta’s iht down the crane that destroyed the satellite dish Besides, Xavier Carlton has his oide news and , either”
“That’s because UNI is wasting tie on that island in the middle of nowhere”
“I know I’ it now It’s nehen one of America’s most secretive military bases
goes dark And I don’t like the incident’s ti Colossus” As Wakefield spoke, stock footage and satellite i the lead story about the mysterious blackout