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“A CIA profile your government shared with us concluded exactly that He’s a paranoid bugger That seems to be what drives him Shortly after Y2K, he fled the US and came to Australia”

“Why Australia?” Kurt asked “Frouys don’t even use nuclear power”

“We don’t,” Bradshaw said “And that’s exactly why he ca field That, along with the fact that Australia and New Zealand were pushing back against visits by American nuclear warships Froovernment would embrace him”

“Did they?”

“At first,” Bradshaw said “He received the first real grant he’d ever seen and found work as a professor at the University of Sydney, while trying to perfect his theory By ’05 he claimed he was only a year away fro test, ot involved and shut him down”

“Why?”

“I have no answer to that,” Bradshaw said, “but there were people who thought his experierous”

That really wasn’t a surprise Paranoid nuclear scientists doing unregulated trials in the dark tended to make people nervous

“How does Hayley fit into all this?”

“She’s a physicist She was a grad student when Thero arrived She worked with hi with Thero’s son, George, and his daughter, Tessa, all of ere physicists, for up to Thero”

“All part of the crusade,” Kurt guessed

“True believers”

“So you guys shut hi that’s not the end of his story”

“It’s not Thero and his family were ordered to leave the country or be deported They one back to the US, but a Japanese venture capitalist naave him a lifeline As near as we can tell, Tokada promised that Japan, unlike your country or mine, would support his work”

“Makes sense,” Kurt said “Japan has always been dependent on iy”