Chapter Thirty
Olesya wiped the sweat from her face. Sophia hoped Olesya had more knowledge about defusing nuclear warheads than she did. Because her knowledge was zero.
The train pushed through a yard and continued on to Wrocław.
‘They must be the bombs that went missing in Ukraine last week,’ Olesya said.
‘Do you know how to disarm them?’
Olesya glared at Sophia with ice-blue eyes. ‘You’re asking if I know how to detonate twenty Soviet nuclear suitcase bombs?’
‘Thought I’d cut to the chase.’
‘They’re linked together,’ Olesya said. ‘One detonation triggers the rest.’ She pointed to a compact antenna on the side of the metal crate, then opened the crate to one of the devices. It had a small timer on it with numbers ticking down: seventeen minutes left. ‘In case the triggers don’t wo
