Chapter 282

SENATOR JOE NEILSON PACED his hotel room. He hadn't let go of the drone photograph since it had passed into his possession.

Jules was alive.

For the last four, almost five, years his sister's status as a prisoner had fluctuated. At times someone might admit she was captured. Others, they didn't know who she was. Every now and then someone had heard about her through someone else.

Despite Joe's efforts to push for her return he'd run up against a brick wall with the Secretary of State's office through two administrations. Everyone agreed that it was too risky to try and bring her home when she'd gotten herself into this mess.

But it was perfectly acceptable to bomb the country and rattle swords?

Joe stared out at the city of Seattle.