Black Order/Chapter 2

Chapter 2 Darwin's Bible

May 16 6:05 A.M. Copenhagen, Denmark
Commander Gray was chewing on a Claritin tablet as he left Hotel Nyhavn. He was engaged in research that lead him to a half dozen of the city's literary establishments. He walked outside in the early morning of the streets of Copenhagen. He received a call from Rachel Verona. He was on an assignment on behalf of her. Her flight was delayed. They end up catching up a bit. Another call came in. It was Logan Gregory, second in command of Sigma Force. As Grey crossed bridges, he recalls stuff, databases at the National Security Agency had flagged a series of black market trades, all pertaining to historical documents that once belonged to Victorian-era scientists. Someone was collecting manuscripts, transcripts, legal documents, letters, and diaries from that era, many with shady trails of ownership. Normally, it had little interest with Sigma Force, but it had sales to factions within terrorist resignations. Made no sense. Sigma was tapped to investigate. Gray was on his mission to get as much background on the by-invitation-only sale that was to occur later this afternoon, including research on the items as much as possible. This meant traveling to run down bookstores in Copenhagen. He had found the most help by a expat ex-laywer from Georgia in a store on Hojbro Plads. This particular auction was a bid on an old Bible owned by Charles Darwin. While he talked, he notices a young woman following him. He gets the address sent by Logan, while not trying to notice the person. He walks. He notes down multiple items of interest,