Montrose spoke with General Davis and informed him of the communications which hinted at an attack in the coming week.

She really wanted to take the Colonel down, but he'd just built the weapon someone else had taken from him.

Sitting at her desk, brooding over a steaming cup of cocoa, she glanced at her email, which suddenly popped up with a new message directed to the inbox of a cell member they'd hacked.

As she read the message, her eyes widened in alarm. She picked up her desk phone and tried dialing out but got a recording stating all lines were busy. She tried her personal cell phone, and...