Sonia was already waiting in the ready room when Drake entered. She’d sent him a terse message saying she needed to speak with him in private but had given no other information. Whatever was up Drake was sure it wouldn’t be good.
“Captain,” she said. “We’ve got a problem. I’ve just detected another attempt by Treng to dump information to someone on the station.”
“Damn him! Did you manage to block it?”
“Yes. But what worries me is he’s going on shore leave in thirty minutes. He’s almost certainly going to get a chance to drop something off then.”
“This problem isn’t going to go away, is it?”
“No, Captain. At some point he’s going to succeed. Quite possibly today.”
“Ok. Assign two people to shadow him. They’re not to let him out of their sight no matter what happens. You’ll
