Operation Eyeglass, as Commander Cavendish had notified the gathered team their investigation was called, was not Toogood’s first major investigation. However, the number of people crammed into the briefing room that morning dwarfed what she had experienced before.

For an hour Commander Cavendish had been detailing the events of the previous two days, and the current state of knowledge acquired since the kidnapping of James Fitzwilliam on the way to his work at the Ministry of Defence.

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