CHAPTER THIRTEEN
1:45 p.m.
Galveston National Laboratory, campus of the University of Texas Medical Branch – Galveston, Texas
“Who is he?” Luke said.
Swann had loaded a photograph of a young man of Mediterranean descent on the laptop screen. Luke and Ed were back in their little classroom command center. The photo in question was a grainy, faraway paparazzi-type photo of a man in a swimsuit on the deck of a boat.
The four of them huddled around the computer as if it were giving off heat.
“His name is Omar bin Khalid al Saud,” Trudy said. “It sounds like a mouthful, but all it really means is Omar, son of Khalid, of the House of Saud. You’re looking at an old picture of him. He’s forty-two years old now, and he’s a member of the Saudi royal family. He’s one of the more than a thousand
