8 Confusion unto Our Enemies If you can't join them, beat them. —Helen Mound, The Sunday Times The closest thing the Voice of the Silent had to a robotics expert was Jerry. Drew just hoped Jerry was up to the task. Their plans to snag a hundred pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer had gone off the rails. They had underestimated the amount of supervision the movement and storage of fertilizer received. There was no way to snatch the stuff without being found out, not without at least two inside men. They had to change the plan. Grabbing the fertilizer would be their third-to-last operation, followed without pause by the making of the bombs and the assault on the hospital ship Chiron. They’d found the abortion clinic. It was on the Red Planet deck, adjacent to a hospital wing that had

