“Can you move the recovery window up to this afternoon?”

“Negative, Major,” Keller answered.

“The federal legal unit needs a full forty-eight hours to put the inter-agency administrative hold on the residential title deed.”

I shut my eyes for two seconds, working out exactly how many hours were left on the calendar before I spoke again.

“Understood, Captain,” I said.

“I’ll meet you in the reading room at ten o’clock.”

“I’m already on site by the reference counter,” Keller said, and the line cut off cleanly before the coin dropped into the collection box.