Griffin was kicking his heels in the Veracruz airport arrivals lounge waiting for Kendall's flight. The last few days he'd spent in Mexico had been very productive but he couldn't wait to see Kendall again.

…

Griffin's contacts at the Miranda Centre had got him in touch with a couple of young men who knew their way around the Marina. They told him a little about the yacht that had gone missing, but it wasn't a local disappearance, it had been stolen from a mooring in São Sebastião in São Paulo.

The older lad, Emiliano, worked at the boat yard. He was very eager for Griffin to come a see a yacht that was being refitted; only he wouldn't say why.

Griffin was brought into a shed that held a huge empty hull halfway through a re-spray of a dull grey undercoat.

"This is your boat." Emiliano said waving at the hollowed out hull. "They paid us to strip it and redesign it but it's the Tiro de Gracia."

"How can you be sure?" Griffin asked.

Emiliano led him over to a corner where scrap from the yacht was being stored. Amongst the pile of pristine oak and mahogany panelse were frosted windows with the name Tiro de Gracia etched into them.

"And it's not just this. In the Mariana a boat like this is pretty unique. You can recognize it easily if you know it!"

"So who commissioned the refit?"

"Juan Silva Lugano."

"Wasn't he the original owner?"

"I guess he couldn't bear to part with his boat. Not that I could blame him," the young man said with a wistful smile, "She is a beauty!"

"Does that mean it wasn't stolen?" Griffin asked.

"Who knows." said Emiliano with a shrug. "When you are rich you can do as you like. I just thought you would want to see it."

…

Discovering that Juan Silva still had his boat added a new twist to the investigation. Juan's medical company was definitely tied to the Lazarus research in Mexico, Uruguay and Brazil but there were over fourteen official research centres. And even if they could search every one, would the company really be desperate enough to hold Erica and Bianca in an official facility?

When Kendall, Jackson and Reggie arrived Griffin had a lot to tell them, but they still had a long way to go.