It was several months later. After the incident in the New York shopping mall, London ordered Steel to take extended sick leave. This was to rest his injuries and give him space from the NYPD.
In his report to the head of MI8, a man known only as CO, Steel insisted that his time in New York was over with no further signs of SANTINI. Steel suggested that he should return to Britain for reassignment.
CO had agreed that his time was best spent doing his job with the Secret Service, not playing detective and eating doughnuts. London was satisfied with what had occurred, but they were still puzzled about how the bomb had detonated.
Steel had thought there might have been a second person involved, someone with an electronic detonator, just in case something went wrong. However, London had dis
