Laura flinched away in shock, and walked slowly toward the bow, not looking back. There must have been some kind of special arrangement, she thought—this Abadan business. Probably Shaw and his people had set it up long ago. Singapore might be finished, but the top data pirates had their own survival instincts. No cheap-shot Naurus and Kiribatis for them—that was for suckers. They were headed where the oil money still ran fast and deep. The Islamic Republic was no friend of Vienna’s.