"Wouldn’t do them any good. Look; Shakala has got to have the RA-17 allele. That’s an obvious inference, right? All the others on the list do. But that information isn’t on any available database. Hence no decker could have found it originally, when our kidnappers were building up their list of targets. It must have come from some direct source, some archive, hard copy maybe." The Englishman almost seemed to turn up his nose at the idea, as if it was a direct insult to the community of deckers generally and himself in particular.