Summary

Tretyakov goes through a solitary walk through Kaliningrad, with the recent developments from both Norway and the United Nations weighing heavily on him.

In Chapter 18, Harvath leads Jasinski onto a private plane in Brussels, where she quickly meets the five other team members who Harvath will lead on the next phase of the mission: Sloane Ashby, Tim Burton, Mike Haney, Chase Palmer, and Tyler Staelin. The team has a loose, jokey atmosphere and, aside from the newcomer Jasinski, it is clear that they have all worked on many missions together. They depart for the small, rural island of Gotland, Sweden, which is east of mainland Sweden, in the Baltic Sea, just to the west of the three Baltic States. Harvath explains that this location is of crucial geographical importance for the Russians and their plans to attack Western Europe. The team's mission in...