Chapter 9
Bude was a long, frustrating day, and Katie was ragged by the time the sun was going down.
Five cables from the US, one each from Canada and Africa, and one that stretched all of the way from India came ashore at Bude. They’d surveyed the landing points of the four at Widemouth Bay and the four more at Crooklets Beach as well as they could.
It had taken much of the afternoon, but they’d even managed to locate the new landing point for the 2Africa cable that Ricardo and Isobel had been so interested in.
Isobel had explained. “It’s the world’s newest major cable. It won’t go live for a year or so, but it lands right here. This was our secondary mission. Once we understood the FLAG cables, we were to very carefully assess the risks to 2Africa. The question is, are we the only on
