“I believe I have something for you, Major,” Jack Halson spoke into the headset of his satellite phone from the comfort of his desk chair in the dingy office he found himself stuck in for days.

Jack winced at the crackling sound that greeted him. He could hear a loud whining sound in the background as Kat Argo’s voice replied from an ocean away, “Go ahead, Sir. We’re wheels-up in a few minutes but don’t have any concrete idea of where to go next.”

“I had my data analysts begin to run traces on a much wider circle of my brother and sister’s acquaintances,” Jack answered. “We found something that stuck out. A professor named Omar Fayid received an untraceable phone call fourteen hours ago, immediately left his London residence and took a flight to Ital...

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