Scary opening for a minute when nobody is answering Cassie and she thinks she’s all alone on the mission.
Forrrreshadowing.
spoiler
Definitely written in 2000, a massive firefight erupts in an airport that everybody just shrugs off and things keep going normally instead of the entire place locking down, and planes in a baggage are left unsecured, just a regular transit station instead of a Homeland security nightmare.
Also, the most exciting opening for Cassie in a long time, that turns into one of the most consistently exciting adventures, with Cassie alone.
Non stop action.
The Australian outback is such a good setting for an adventure. I’d like to read a longer version of a story like this.
Actually there was that popular YA series “tomorrow when the war began”, that was a great series.