CHAPTER THIRTY ONE
11:02 a.m. Korea Time, August 18 (10:02 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, August 17)
Headquarters of the National Intelligence Service – Seoul, South Korea
The headquarters, in a suburb south of the city proper, were sprawling. The place probably didn’t employ as many people as the Pentagon, but the grounds seemed larger. Buildings fanned out from the central building like spokes on a wheel.
They were met at the airstrip and brought by limousine to the main building. Luke, Ed, and Swann were all still dressed like they were on summer vacation. Trudy was dressed in Swann’s cast-off clothing—she looked like something out of a story about a young homeless waif who steals her clothes from people’s backyard clotheslines.
None of them spoke. Although they had all dozed on and o
