The mission had been going so much better this time! But even with the stolen data in hand, Orchid couldn't escape in time.

A few clicks of boot-heels on flooring was the only warning she got before a sharp pain pierced through her lower abdomen! The blade that now jutted from her body was as much a mystery as the identity of the woman who'd just killed her.

As the datastick fell from her clenched hand, Orchid's scream filled the underground lab, stifled by half a mile of earth and unheard by any but her killer...