Chapter 30
THE VANISHING
Arena Cove, Manchester, California. The FBI agents threw the bumpers over the side of the sixty-foot United States Coast Guard sailboat. They lassoed the cleats on the starboard railing of the Dios and pulled the bows of the two boats together. The agents finished securing the lines, boarded Kip Wilde’s sailing yacht, and began their methodical search of the vessel.
A firefighter from the Redwood Coast Fire Protection helped Professor Hagen out the doorway of the seed vault, followed by other fire personnel and the rest of the engineering team. They climbed into a horse-drawn fire wagon, and four horses pulled the wagon forward.
“We need to go two miles into the forest before we go to town,” Hagen said.
After some discussion, the wagon turned around, and the r
