The report came in at two in the afternoon and by three he knew the full shape of it.
Three operations in New York, compromised on separate occasions over six weeks, each one targeted precisely enough to be useful without being catastrophic, which was the specific signature of intelligence gathering rather than sabotage. Whoever was feeding information didn't want to destroy his operation. They wanted to map it. To understand the load-bearing walls of it so that when the time came to remove them, they knew exactly which ones to pull.
He had been doing this long enough to understand what that meant about timing. This was preparation. Something was coming. The question was what and from which direction, and whether those two things would turn out to be what he currently suspected.
