The answer was about to be considerably more than she had bargained for.

Chapter 9 — What About My Daughter

“Here is what happens now, Nora,” Martin said, and I could hear him still typing, mobilizing things on the far side of the world.

“A secure courier from our regional embassy liaison in Bangkok is already being dispatched to your location.

Within ninety minutes, a representative will arrive at your hotel with an emergency provisional passport, an encrypted satellite phone, and two thousand dollars in local currency.

You will not spend one more hour stranded.”