Summary

Chapters 1-15 __Summary-__ Mediha Susan Fletcher is marrying David Becker. They are supposed to be going on a vacation up north but David was called out to go somewhere. Susan works for Crypto. She was called in to go to work on a Saturday. David was in a Learjet 60. He does not know where he is going. Or who he is with. But he will be there in 30 minutes. Crypto is very gated and protected. They worked with codes. Becker broke a code.

Chapters 16-32 __Summary-__ Christopher Whittlesey David find that there is a ring missing off Takado hand. The officer tells David about the rambling tourist. Starts his hunt for the missing ring at the La clínica de salud publica.

Chapters 33-57 __Summary-__ Heather Wade david goes to spain to try to find the ring and when he gets to the people who is supposed to have it, he finds out they gave it away. and a 'punk rocker chick' had the ring now.

Chapters 58-88 __Summary-__ The assassin is killing off everybody. Susan finds Phil dead and confronts commander strathmore.

Chapters 89-125 __Summary-__ Brett Riley North Dakota and Ensei Tankado are actually the same person, as "NDAKOTA" is an anagram of "Tankado". Strathmore shots Hale, and arranges it to appear as a suicide. Susan later discovers through Strathmore's pager that he is the one who hired Hulohot. Becker later kills Hulohot in a violent confrontation. When TRANSLTR overheats, Strathmore commits ,suicide by standing next to the machine as it explodes. The worm eventually gets into the database, but soon after Fletcher figures out the password, and is able to terminate the worm before hackers can get any data. At last it is revealed that Numataka is Ensei Tankado's father. Numataka left Tankado the day he was born since Tankado was a deformed child.