Chapter 45
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I should never have come back to the compound in the first place. That much was obvious, but it hadn’t been obvious to me because I didn’t realize Kohl would launch his attack that quickly. I should have bailed out on the road, made my way to the nearest FBI office and talked them into getting a warrant to raid the Quod Corporation.
But it was too late for that now. My plan had failed, the rocket had launched the satellite into orbit as scheduled, and Kumar wouldn’t be doing any favors for me now because he was being tortured by the Ja Lama. The Sōhei Faction would die with him, and Vitalius Kohl would decapitate the Federal government and then go on to wage some war of his own, for purposes I had never understood and would never understand. Not because he had never
