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“What just happened?”

“The thought of all co forup Mallik’s baton Since the satellites were still operable, I set each of the Vajra satellites to fire a deorbit burn Nurated”

Then satellite number three went red, followed by nine and thirteen Soon all twenty satellites were gone

Murph stood up and faced Juan

“I probably overstepped my authority on that one,” Murph said

Juan got to his feet and s for my job?”

Murph grinned back at hi?”

EPILOGUE

INDIA

Five days later

Juan clasped his hands behind his back as he kicked his flippers to propel hie His headlamp picked up the bloated face of another dead body, the fourth he and Max had passed since venturing into the passageway to what Lionel Gupta had called the Library

The ancient fortress on a sprawling estate turned out to be one of the only properties in India to be held in private hands continuously since the tih Gupta hadn’t kept the location of the Library in his files, Murph and Eric were able to hack into the phone records of both Carlton and Mallik The last time their phones were in the same location hen they visited this location south of Mumbai

It took a day of probing for Juan and Max to find a way in, but they had loads of tiot the ht with the rogue frigates, the revolutionary drive ed It took three days for the ship to limp into the Port of Kochi, a trip that normally would have taken her four hours at top speed Thanks to an ethically flexible shipyard oho didn’t see the need to report the ship’s presence to the authorities, Juan arranged for her to go through a full refit in a massive covered drydock adjacent to the facility where India’s newest aircraft carrier was being built The in for another week, so Juan thought it would be a good chance to chase history and solve thelast

Once they had found the underwater passageway marked by the lion-head pillar with the swastika symbol of the Nine on it, he and Max secured some scuba equipment and went for a swim

They finally surfaced again at a gate with yet another dead guard