Chapter Forty-Two
“What did you find out?” Darque asked, as Yoda entered the room.
“I don’t know where we messed up,” Yoda said, “but one of the cars had been compromised.”
“In what way?” Darque asked.
“Someone had attached a magnetic beacon to the framework of the car, but whoever did that also drilled a small hole in the tail light on the driver’s side of the car.”
Darque displayed his increasing interest in the matter as he leaned forward.
“What would that accomplish?” he asked.
“Not much during daylight hours, but at night, the white light coming through the red lens looks like a lighthouse beam, and the affected vehicle can be followed from a longer distance than usual.”
The revelation was one more interesting piece of information for Darque to tuck away in his brain for some
