“She’s all yours,” Harold Middleton said to Ian Barrett-Bone, whose slacks had been badly smudged in the take-down of the Syrian. He brushed with some irritation at a stain.

They were on the sidewalk in front of the Café Nero. Jana Grover was being taken into custody for the drive to New Scotland Yard, where the Metropolitan police’s Anti-Terror Unit, one of the best in the world, would interrogate her.

Middleton was the only Volunteer present at the moment, though Wiki Chang was in MI5’s tech lab on Euston Road, preparing to crack the encryption on the thumb drives.

Which, according to the documents found in Jana’s briefcase, included details on the copper bracelet technology—the secret elements that would make the system operative.

“You were spot on, Harry. Have to ask, how’d you figure it out?”

Middleton considered his answer. “You could say, by looking at what wasn’t in front of us.”

“How’s that?”

“Questions. I kept coming back to unanswered questions. First of all, the email.”

“Which one’s that?”

“From Sikari to Balan. We found it on Balan’s computer, which Sikari and Jana were pretty damn eager to destroy.” He quoted it for Barrett-Bone. “It said, ‘You recall what I have planned for the “Village.” It has to happen soon—before we can move on. We only have a few weeks at the most.’”

“Ah, before we can move on.”

“Exactly. That told me he had something planned after the incident at the dam.”

“But how did you connect it here?”

“That was another nagging question: we had a lead to the mosque in the very beginning, but it didn’t pan out. We knew it wasn’t a misdirection because that was on the computer too, the one they blew up. But we couldn’t find any connection when we investigated the first time. That told me it might have something to do with what Sikari had planned after the dam.”

“And why did you think it had to do with the heavy-water system?”

“That was speculation, I admit. But I got the idea because of my kind host a few days ago: Mr. No Name—from the Group.”

“Oh, those mad Nazi bastards?”

“Right. They were so adamant about finding the technology that it suggested they knew Sikari had gotten further along in developing a heavy-water system than it seemed. They’d seen the patents and known his copper bracelet wouldn’t work. Then why were they so eager to kidnap me and track down the Scorpion? They suspected that Sikari had withheld some of his research.”

Middleton had then contacted Barrett-Bone, who arranged for increased surveillance around the mosque, easy enough in a city that boasts one CCTV camera for every three residents.