A trail begins, Katie reminded herself. It progresses. The important task isn’t to interpret the trail’s intent. The important task is to follow it in the moment and see where it leads. It was the closest thing she had to a mantra.
But in all of her years of training and working as a guide, she hadn’t expected it to lead to a highly secure government site.
Once she and Anton climbed back into the SUV, they’d finished the short drive to the Bude antenna site.
Compared to the Skewjack building, GCHQ Bude was intensely secure. It was one of the signal-gathering stations of the Government Communications Headquarters—the equivalent of America’s NSA.
Ever since the First World War they’d been the codebreaking arm of the United Kingdom. They’d run Bletchley Park where Germany’s Enigma Code ha
