Land Rover B100e-64 -

Hamish smiled—a thin, grim line. “Because it wasn’t destroyed. The cylinder was too unstable. They buried it. In a lead-lined sarcophagus, under a concrete slab, beneath the car park of a disused RAF radar station near Tain.”

It was pinned to a corkboard behind a vending machine, written in fading marker: land rover b100e-64

Non-standard propulsion. In 1986, that meant one of three things: gas turbine, hydrogen cell, or something nuclear. But Land Rover had experimented with gas turbines in the 1970s (the gas turbine powered “Road Rover”) and abandoned them. Hydrogen was too volatile. Nuclear… too absurd. Hamish smiled—a thin, grim line

“B100E-64?” Hamish laughed, a dry, creaking sound. “You mean the Ghost Ninety.” They buried it

The entry read: “B100E-64: Non-standard propulsion evaluation. Platform: Land Rover 90 Heavy Duty. Power source: undisclosed. Operator: Delta Group. Final location: North Scottish test range. Status: Terminated.”

“I found where it’s buried,” Leo said. “What’s in the cylinder?”

Leo asked the obvious question: “If it was terminated, why is there a reward?”