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“So it seems that you are the sole keeper of the classified code word on this project.”
Miranda wasn’t, but she was the team’s IIC. Being in charge meant not exposing your team to undue distractions. Holly Harper had also heard the code word and Miranda had no doubts regarding her memory.
Knowing that General Harrington had made it up on the spot, and then forgotten it in the uncontrolled heat of his anger, didn’t invalidate its existence. Or perhaps it did.
She rose to walk about the office. Movement was conducive to thought processes involving ciphers and perhaps would be in resolving this particular conundrum. Much of his office was filled with various maps. Some made sense to his current position: central America, Eastern Africa and across the Arabian states, Southwest Asia, and
