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He glanced over at the nightstand He’d covered the bright face of the alarht out of his eyes, but his Doxa watch was resting beside it He scooped it up, checked the luminous hands, and realized it was al

He threw the covers off, climbed out of bed, and walked over to the desk If he couldn’t find sleep, maybe he could find some answers

He opened his laptop and took a drink of water while it booted up A quick Internet search regarding the ASIO brought up numerous articles He didn’t expect to find a list of secret operations, but he thought therewith Maybe soether

With no luck there, he thought about Hayley

“Who are you, Ms Anderson?” he muttered “And what are you mixed up in?”

He ran a Google search on her, and a wealth of links appeared

To Kurt’s surprise, Hayley was a scholar: a theoretical physicist tenured at the University of Sydney She’d authored a number of papers with incomprehensible titles There was adown an invite to Oxford He found another where she was trying to explain so in his understanding of it

Kurt poured hilass of scotch He found hi wo in the ation?

Finding no answer to that question, or any public link between her and the ASIO, he turned his attention to the dead informant

Kurt was certain thefroet it?

DCS had once been called caisson disease, because it was originally noticed in construction workers ere toiling away in the pressurized caissons used to build the foundations of great bridges But it was most commonly seen in scuba divers

The deadacross Sydney Harbour That also suggested he rimy street clothes, not a wet suit, and he smelled like days of perspiration, not the fresh salt of the sea That, along with the roup was operating in the outback, weighed against Kurt’s theory

He found a register of lakes in Australia and painstakingly scanned through them Just as Bradshaw insisted,up completely in the summertime

“Not the kind of places one gets the bends,” Kurt said

He put the list down and began scanning a satellite i ard from Sydney and out over more arid territory, it was easy to see how quickly the terrain becareen