"I am like a man with a puzzle board and a heap of loose pieces.

Kroten is one of those pieces, but I haven't commenced the fitting-in process yet.

Here," he said, "is as much as I can tell you about it.

There are three cities, situated in different countries in the world, which are each in their way connected with the danger which is brewing for this country.

I have heard them described as the three secret cities.