"The doctor he's been seeing, Dr. Cataldo? He went off-Deck some time ago to run His Majesty's tests personally." Jordan extracts the flash drive he's been carrying with him since Hadyn gave it to him. "He died in what the Swiss police are calling a drunk driving accident, but he wasn't drunk. And the tests he had run don't indicate that His Majesty has any kind of natural illness.

"It's lead poisoning, and if he doesn't get treatment soon, his kidneys will begin to fail, milady."