CHAPTER TWENTY NINE
10:24 a.m. August 17 (4:24 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time, August 17)
Over the Pacific Ocean
It was crazy going all this way just to interrogate a prisoner.
Luke stared out the window at the vastness of blue ocean around them. They’d been flying for hours, and they had hours more to go. It occurred to him that in Korea, it was already August 18. August 18 was zero hour.
He looked across the aisle from him. Trudy had been asleep for a long while, curled into a ball. Now she was awake again, looking out her window. He glanced in the back. Ed and Swann were both dozing.
“Why do you suppose,” he said, “the Koreans didn’t tell us they had this prisoner?”
Trudy shrugged. “A lot of reasons. They’ve only had the guy a day. The North Koreans are always crying wolf, like you
