The President is Missing

Bach emerges from the lake near where the security summit is taking place and dons camouflage before slipping into the woods, unseen.

In the woods, Bach encounters a pack of coyotes. She frightens them away by wounding one.

President Duncan learns that the team of shooters who pursued him on the bridge were hired mercenaries, and his team is trying to trace who was paying them. He also learns that two of his cybersecurity experts believe that they have located the Dark Ages virus.