The State Department forbids the agency to question the official Saudi version that Oil Minister Prince Abdullah was killed by extreme feminist Hani Jabril, whom they intend to extradite for execution rather then risk a diplomatic crisis. Martin's team still agrees to look unofficially for the whole story, which might clear her. Martin's reporter alter-ego Sebastian Egan promises human right activist magazine editor Julian Drake a scoop on the drone murder so as to stir the hornet's nest, and is indeed kidnapped by Faris Nader, whom he offered a backup data-stick copy. But the team loses his trace. Meanwhile his own pre-Iraq identity is worryingly questioned within the agency.
—KGF Vissers