He went to the director in the morning.
Not with a list of demands or a strategy for the next nine days. With one question that the director's notes and the FA meeting and the agent's reveal had not answered: how long had Field Authority known he was coming?
The director looked at him across the desk with the particular attention he used when a question had an answer he did not have.
"I don't know," he said. "But Maret Lindh would."
He said it with the certainty of someone who had been thinking along the same lines since the agent's identity was confirmed.
"She attended the FA meeting," he continued. "She spoke for Option B. She did not do either of those things because Field Authority asked her to. But she knows their operational history better than I do. She's been in the archive for thirty years." He looked at the window. "She'll be there this morning."
