The truth was, New York was too big to scour in a matter of hours and the phones rang off the hook. Its people were too numerous and its visitors too plentiful. It might take ten minutes for the Army to reach the White House but, despite all its guards and security measures, how long would it take to search that relatively small place? Now, Drake thought, put that scenario in New York and where do you stand? It was a rare event when the security forces captured terrorists actually committing their act of atrocity. In the real world, the terrorists were chased and tracked down after the outrage. Dahl arrived at last, looking disheveled and world-weary, the rest of the SPEAR team at his back. Kenzie inexplicably started looking around and asked where the evidence room was. Dahl just rolled his eyes at her and said, “Let her go or she’ll never be satisfied.” The rest of the team crowded around and heard what Drake had to say which, apart from worrying about Hayden, wasn’t an awful lot.
