Book Three · Foundation arc · Coming

Poisoned Ground

The federal facility was decommissioned in 1979. The road in is gravel for the last six miles. The chain on the gate has been cut and re-welded twice in the last year. Whatever the government tested up there in the fifties, sixties, and early seventies got tested on people who lived in the hollers below — and the records were classified, then digitized, then quietly disappeared during a contractor migration in '94.

Marcus Yun is an old federal contact who owes Grant a favor he hasn't paid. He gets Grant into the classified backchannel and reads something he was not meant to read. By Tuesday his apartment is empty, his phone is off, and the only person who knows where he went is the guy he sent the file to.

"Three cases. Three migrations. Three vendors. One parent company. We have a name now."