 Under interrogation, she gave up the same information Tisiphone had discovered.Realizing that Alicia had no way of knowing that they had proof of Treadwell's treason, and that she would take matters into her own hand (because she had no way of knowing whether the rot went up even higher than Treadwell), and exactly what sort of plan she could some up with, Brigadier Sir Arthur Keita - Alicia's former commanding officer - her best friend (Major Tanis Cateau) and Inspector Ferhat Ben Belkassem race off in a dispatch boat to intercept Alicia at Soissons.Disaster is barely averted by the simultaneous intercession of Tisiphone and her friends and allies on a collision course with "her" snap Alicia out of her madness.