“Will you be able to tell me who planted the device?”

“The device contains timestamps,” Tatyana said. “If we find out exactly when it was planted, we’ll be able to cross reference it with location data for your team members.”

Roth nodded. The idea that one of his team had been betraying him made his blood boil. Now that they were closing in, his heart pounded faster.

He cleared his throat. “Can I get anyone coffee?”

The analysts shook their heads.

“Tatyana?”

“Sure,” she said without looking up.

“How do you take it?”

“Black with sweetener.”

Roth nodded. It was exactly how Laurel took hers. The thought of her sent him to the situation room, where they’d been working round the clock trying to track down her position.

He opened the door and looked inside. Eight people were working round a large table. A screen at the far end of the table had a map up of the greater Moscow area.

Roth looked around the table and wondered if any of them was his leak. He’d know soon enough, and if anything happened to Laurel because of them, there’d be hell to pay.

“What have we got?” Roth said.

He knew they’d have contacted him if they’d found anything major, but he needed an update.

“We got a track on the name you gave us, sir.”

“Timokhin?”

“Yes, sir. His vehicle left GRU headquarters some time ago. We’ve been analyzing traffic cameras all over Moscow to try and find out where it went.”

“How long will it take?”

“We already know he headed north.”

“Where was he going?”

“We’re recreating the trip, sir. There are no exit cameras on the main highway north from the city but we’re pulling in satellite data.”

“Will that take long?”

“We think we’ll have a destination for you soon, boss.”

“I don’t need to remind anyone here that Everlane’s life is on the line.”

“No, sir.”

He let them get back to work. He went to the coffee machine and made two cups, one for Tatyana and one for himself, and went back to the secure room.

“Sir,” one of the techs said as soon as he entered. “You need to sit down.”

“What is it?”

“Please, sir. Shut the door.”

Roth shut the door. “All right, boys. Spit it out. We’ve got lives on the line.”

“It’s not a member of the team, sir.”

“What do you mean? That device was found in this building. In my office.”

“Sir, did you have a meeting with Mansfield the night of the system glitch?”

“What are you talking about?” Roth said, trying to cast his mind back to that night. It seemed like a lifetime ago now.

“I don’t think so.”

“He was here, sir. That night.”

“He’s here all the time,” Roth said. “What of it?”