Chapter 25And not knowing where anyone was, was bothersome. Herbert had taken a flight for Wellington in New Zealand the night he had met Talya and Samuel. Millicent was now comfortably ensconced in her Darwin apartment, which she rented to a friend—her name appeared nowhere. Sorenson and the two officers, who had met Mark earlier that year, were in Canberra attending some training or other. And the man who had lent his boat to Talya and Samuel had gone to his vineyard in Victoria for the rest of the summer.
This disappearing act had left Lypsick with no other choice but to call on his CIA contact. The latter, when he heard that Lypsick couldn’t track anyone down, exploded over the line. “Are you serious? This is unbelievable! You mean to tell me they’ve just gone off the grid?”
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