“What? You were all at the FBI? You’re kidding me. No, wait, of course they’d be involved with a shooting on American soil. Okay, walk me through it.”

“Well, Mr. Grace and I were escorted to the third floor of the Hoover Building into an interview room, you know the kind, a long scarred table, uncomfortable chairs, plain white walls, and we met with Special Agent Savich, who’s in charge of the investigation. Mr. Lodner made a late entrance and he was obviously pissed at having to come to the enemy encampment. They were both tight-lipped, but Agent Savich got most everything he wanted out of Mr. Lodner, even got them both to leave so we could talk privately. He seems very smart, and I think I might even trust him. He promised he’s going to find out who the man I shot last night was, and that he’s going to find Mike. Of course he agrees all this is connected to our mission, and that flash drive Hashem gave Mike that disappeared with him.”

Andi heaved out a breath. “Makes sense, obviously. This Agent Savich sounds interesting. I’ve never heard of anyone having his way with Lodner, Mr. Stiff Lip himself. But, Olivia, I don’t see how this FBI agent, however smart he is, could possibly find Mike when we can’t even identify a foreign agent.”

“You might think I’m crazy, but I think he will.”

“Of course I wish him well, finding Mike and that flash drive. I remember Higgs asked Mike on our flight to Balad if Hashem told him what was on the flash drive before he died, but Mike only shook his head and didn’t say anything. I’ll tell you, Olivia, the way it’s looking now, you can hardly say the mission was a success—Hashem died, you were hurt, Mike’s missing, and no flash drive. And now you were almost killed again. There’s got to be lots of stuff going on we don’t know about, Olivia, bad stuff.”

Andi drew a deep breath. “I don’t know if you remember, but I tried to get over to help Mike when Hashem was shot, but Higgs shouted to me. He needed cover. I remember you were close to them. Did you hear Hashem tell Mike anything when he gave him the flash drive, something that could help us?”

Olivia said, “I remember he spoke to Mike before he died, but if I heard what Hashem said to him, it didn’t register, or that RPG blew it out of my brain. The doctors don’t know if I’ll ever be able to fill in all the blanks from that day.

“Andi, tell me again you’re tucked away where no one can find you.”