20 EPLILOGUEThere had been no sleep for the four men on Koh Samui that night, nor for hundreds of others situated from Bangkok to the Middle East and London, where the highest officials in the land also awaited news with bated breath. Their sources of information were better than Gareg’s, but they didn’t share what they knew not even with Young. Gareg and his team had to rely on Dave’s pings from Cristobel, the Thai Military News Channel and the BBC’s World Service and Radio Four, which made them smile for seeming appropriate for them.
Cristobel’s first seven pings informed them that at least three jackets had been activated in Malaysia and four in the Middle East. Four subsequent pings in rapid succession around eleven a.m. Thai time told them that the jackets in Syria and Iraq had explo
