Summary

In Chapter 38, Gil received a message from Ellen asking him to show Anahita the numbers Shah had given her. During dinner Anahita, Gil, Katherine, Zahara, and Boynton discussed ideas about the meanings of the numbers. Zahara suggested they needed to think more like those with Jihadist minds instead of Shah’s mind. She believed the numbers Shah had sent referred to some wound the terrorists had suffered.

In Shah’s house, no significant papers were found, but Lakhani’s body was located in the basement.

In Chapter 39, in the Oval Office, Williams had made everyone leave the White House since they thought the bomb might detonate in just more than an hour. Williams’ senior security agent told him it was an empty gesture to stay. Williams argued his death would be a statement that the United States could not be intimidated, if the...