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said.
    â€œI can count on your support?”
    â€œOf course, Jim. Always.”
    President Havers exhaled. “Thank you, Julia. We need a joint intelligence meeting. To figure out where we go from here.”
    â€œAgreed.”
    â€œHow soon can your guys be in Washington?”
    â€œI think, under the circumstances, Jim, it makes more sense for your guys to come to London. Don’t you?”
    Julia Cabot smiled. It felt good to have the upper hand with the Americans for once. Right now she was the only friend Jim Havers had in the world and he knew it. She must play her cards for all they were worth.
    â€œI’ll see what I can do,” Jim Havers said gruffly.
    â€œWonderful.” Julia Cabot hung up.
    EXACTLY ONE WEEK LATER, four men sat around a table in Whitehall, eyeing one another warily.
    â€œGood of you to come, gentlemen.” Jamie MacIntosh rolled up his shirtsleeves and leaned forward, smiling amiably at his American counterparts. “I know you must both have had a difficult week.”
    â€œThat’s an understatement.” Greg Walton of the CIA looked desperately tired. He resented being summoned to London, especially at a time when his beloved agency was being ripped to shreds by Congress back home. But he made an effort at politeness. Unlike his FBI colleague, Milton Buck.
    â€œI hope you have something important to add to this operation,” Buck snarled at Jamie MacIntosh. “Because frankly we don’t have time to waste on handholding you Brits.”
    Sitting beside Jamie MacIntosh, Frank Dorrien stiffened. “Well, quite,” he said sardonically. “After the mess you made of what should have been a perfectly simple rescue mission, based on our entirely accurate intelligence, I imagine you want to devote as many man-hours as possible to training your own men. Heaven knows they need it.”
    Milton Buck looked like he was ready to throw a punch.
    â€œAll right, that’s enough.” Jamie MacIntosh glared at Frank Dorrien. “None of us have time for chest beating. Let’s leave that to the politicians. We’re here to combine our resources and share information on Group 99 and that’s what we’re going to do. Why don’t I start?”
    Greg Walton leaned back in his chair. “Great. What have you got?”
    â€œFor starters, we’ve got a name for Captain Daley’s killer.”
    Walton and Buck looked at each other in shock. “Seriously?”
    Frank Dorrien pushed a file across the table.
    In the top left-hand corner was a photograph of a handsome, dark-skinned man with a strong jaw, long aquiline nose, and hooded, distrustful eyes. There was a detached air about him and a certain watchful hauteur, like a bird of prey.
    â€œAlexis Argyros,” Jamie MacIntosh announced. “Codenamed Apollo. One of Group 99’s founder members and a thoroughly unpleasant piece of work. Grew up in foster care in Athens. Possibly abused. A high school dropout but brilliant with computers and obsessed with violent video games from his early teens. Hates women. Sadist. Narcissist. All this is from his social worker’s reports.”
    â€œCriminal record?” Greg Walton asked.
    â€œOh yes. Petty theft, vandalism, arson. Two years in youth custody for rape. And he was suspected in a hideous case of animal cruelty where a cat and kittens were burned alive.”
    â€œYou only get two years for rape?” Greg Walton asked.
    â€œThe Greeks can’t afford to run their prisons,” Jamie MacIntosh said matter-of-factly. “Not since austerity. Anyway, we believe Argyros was the man who pulled the trigger in Daley’s execution video. He was running the camp you raided, and his star is on the rise within Group 99. For months now he’s been trying to steer the group towards more violent methods, battling against the moderate elements within 99. Argyros appeals to disaffected young males in the