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"Later, Eva would not be able to reconstruct how three hours passed without discussing the project. Instead the conversation wandered: her childhood in Rotterdam; his extensive travels; the best coffee in Geneva and which lakefront café was worth the walk.
She had laughed more at that table than in the last three months combined. That should have worried her. It did not. It simply felt good, the way a held breath felt good when it was finally let go.
When he offered to drive her back to her hotel, she said yes without running the calculation she ran on every offer from every person who wanted something from her. It did not occur to her, even once, that this might be a mistake."
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The Petrova Taskforce brings on a new consultant just weeks before launch: a man whose expertise no one can quite define, and whose influence no one remembers agreeing to. As the clock ticks down to launch, Eva Stratt and several of the key scientists start acting strangely. Then Ryland Grace disappears. The Hail Mary crew takes matters into their own hands.