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When he approached her, Sandra played along, but secretly started gathering evidence to expose Trygg. At the end, she broke into Trygg’s office, downloaded his computer files with all his records and turned him in to the military authorities. And months later, testified against him.”
    “Who was the nanite specialistTrygg brought in?” Quamar asked.
    Jarek glanced at the file. “Doctor Lewis Pitman.”
    “The records couldn’t prove his involvement,” Cain advised. “Pitman disappeared from the grid soon after the charges were dropped. We haven’t found him yet.”
    “So what does all of this have to do with Booker?” Jarek returned to the original question.
    “Read the last few pages of the report,” Cainanswered. “By the time Sandra blew the whistle on Trygg, he’d already released CIRCADIAN on a test group days before. She didn’t know it at the time.”
    Jarek flipped through the pages until he found the information. “It says here that Trygg kept the exercise a secret.”
    “We believe Trygg had started suspecting Sandra’s behavior and kept the experiment from her.”
    Jarek read a littlefurther, then swore. He glanced up at Cain. “Booker’s men?”
    “This was a whole new biochemical weapon that nobody had heard of before. Trygg needed proof for CIRCADIAN to be marketable,” Cain explained. “He decided on human guinea pigs. So he sent several of his military units out on maneuvers at one of our abandoned military bases. Although they couldn’t prove it, I think Lewis Pitman dumpedthe nanites from a plane. A million little micro bugs floating in the air. Fifty men died that day. Most were Booker’s troops.”
    “A death sentence,” Quamar muttered, his fist tight. “How did Booker survive?”
    “The report says Booker was called away on another assignment right before,” Jarek answered for Cain. “He hadn’t been on the base.”
    “The story gets worse,” Cain said, his voicegrim. “Trygg managed to appear concerned enough to visit each of the men while they fought for their life. He caught the effects of the biochemical reaction on a hidden video camera. Along with the doctor’s reports.”
    “Documenting the result for his buyers,” Quamar stated, disgusted. “I have known many men like Trygg. Who feed off of human suffering.”
    “None of Booker’s men survived?”Jarek asked.
    “None. CIRCADIAN has no known antidote,” Cain answered. “Trygg told Sandra of the deaths while he was being arrested. I know—I was there. She held it together until the guards took him away. Then she collapsed.”
    “Booker will not let Trygg remain free. He’ll kill him first,” Jarek acknowledged. He stood, walked over to the window. In an hour or so, the sun would break acrossthe horizon, a warm gold over the pitch and curves of the centuries-old city roofs.
    Through the years, he’d lost family. Quamar’s mother, and his own father and mother had been murdered. The thought of losing his people at the hands of a madman cut just as deep. “Hell, I would do the same.”
    “We all would,” Cain added.
    They’d all spent years in the field. They’d all been responsiblefor men who never returned home, for families and strangers who got killed, simply because they were in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
    “After Trygg’s conviction, Booker resigned from the military,” Cain explained. “I recruited him into Labyrinth on President Mercer’s recommendation. A few months later, he volunteered to serve in Taer. Because of his expertise in desert warfare, and hisbackground in oil drilling, I approved his assignment.”
    “Booker’s request was no coincidence, Cain,” Quamar inserted, suddenly putting all of the pieces together. “He wanted to be close to Sandra.”
    “You’re right but I didn’t realize it at the time,” Cain agreed. “After the Al Asheera tried to stage that coup on Taer a few years ago, I ordered Booker home to the States and instead,