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“Apparently, it’s the source of the antidote,” Eric said

“What did they find?” Juan asked

“We don’t know,” Sylvia said “Most of the file was corrupted Just that it involved ancient ruins of soists were all lost in a plane crash returning fros”

“Then how did Jin and Polk know about it?”

“We asked the very same question ourselves,” Murph said

“Perhaps the archaeologists co site,” Sylvia said

“Or the plane crash was faked and they did make it back,” Eric said “We’ve seen what this couple does to their own employees”

“None of this sounds very helpful yet,” Juan said, “which ood”

Sylvia and Eric looked at Murph, giving him the chance to deliver the news He s him up in Darwin

“And you thought we didn’t get a present for you,” Murph said “The file contained the GPS coordinates of the dig site The ruins they found are along the Ord River on the northwest coast of Australia We can be there by to”

THIRTY-EIGHT

HORN ISLAND, QUEENSLAND

The Marauder finally made it to the Torres Strait Islands late on Christo was located at the tip of the Cape York Peninsula, the only place within two hundred h for Polk’s jet to land and refuel He was agitated as the launch made its way to the anchored trimaran

When he stepped onto the ship, he was met by his wife, who looked equally distressed

“How could this have happened?” she asked as she hugged hi so smoothly”