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Lizzy had Miranda on one line, a captain on the ground at Andrews on another, and the NSA contact who’d traced the phone on the third.
“Both numbers you gave me appear to be in airplane mode,” the NSA contact reported. “We can follow a phone in that mode unless it is actually powered off. It simply means that the user can’t send or receive.”
“That’s not encouraging.”
“Best I’ve got.”
“I found them,” the captain at Andrews reported. “Actually I found three. Two together and a third that caught my headlights another twenty or so meters along the taxiway. Wouldn’t have spotted it if they hadn’t just mowed.”
Back to the NSA, “Can you tell me who the third phone belongs to? It’s presently co-located with the other two.”
But she already knew!
Why was it only now that she remembered th
