"How about this?" Zouichi asked. "We can confront Nomalanga and her advisors in order of the strength of evidence we have against them. Because we have solid proof that Allard was involved, we go to him first, tell him that his child is safe, and try to get information out of him about the rest of Snidely's operation. It sounded like he stumbled upon it on his own, anyway. He may know who Snidely's confederate is."

"From then, we can separately press Taworri and Mekaisto with the pieces of incriminating evidence we have against them, bluffing if we have to to get as much information as we can out of them. We can then present what we have to Nomalanga. I believe isolating each of the possible suspects, combined with acting as if we're sure we know who the accomplice is, may act in our favor -- we'll essentially be exerting psychological pressure on those we interview just by getting them alone and away from the others, and those we haven't yet talked to will be wondering what we do know."