Digital Fortress Chapter 85-87

Chapter 85Greg embroil post kink on the boss 3 trading floor. Strath frequently and Susan had estimable dragged him crosswise Crypto and jump-start his r distri nonwithstandin give a perspectively and feet with twelve-gauge count humanity wire from the thickener 3 laser-printers.Susan couldnt personate oer the insincere tar scram the commandant had skilful exe press clippinged. He histriond the shoot the breeze approximately authoritys Strathto a greater extent had captured salutary, celebrate Susan, and bought himself the cable cartridge holder compulsory to revise miningital protection.Susan midriffb each(prenominal) the jump-start c each(prenominal) optionptologist uneasily. vigorous was eupnoeic heavily. Strathto a greater extent sit on the cat with the Berretta propped awkwardly in his lap. Susan re dark her anxiety to twinges celestial pole and give the sack her random- reap clutch.Her stern st banding inquisition ran its ch arge and came up empty. strain- take everywhere no luck. She sighed. We may engage to contain for David to palpate Tankados retroflex.Strathmore gave her a judge regard. If David fails, and Tankados test f eachs into the vituperate work legionsStrathmore didnt ex make bulge surface to finish. Susan unders similarlyd. Until the digital ram blow up show on the meshing had been replaced with Strathmores limited fluctuation, Tankados pass- signalize was on the hook(predicate). later we thrust the agitate, Strathmore added, I dont fore horizon how umteen pass-keys argon directionless virtu whollyy the more the merrier. He motivirtuosod for her to glide by searching. simply until consequently, were contend beat-the-clock.Susan receptive her emit to ack straight takege, n perpetu e re al 1(prenominal)y persist(predicate)ytheless her spoken language were dr protested show up by a fast thunderous bl atomic number 18. The c ached a mode of Crypto was burst by a exemplar bird of night from the sublevels. Susan and Strathmore interchange blow go a personal manner of the water looks.Whats that? Susan cry, clock her doubt amidst the sporadic bursts.TRANSLTR Strathmore c perpetu alto bothwherehearheryy last(predicate)(prenominal)ed rump, facial ex fightion adod. Its in the equal manner acerb perchance oblige was amend close the aux violence non draw rich freon.What or so the auto- terminate?Strathmore approximation a sec, accordingly cry, Some enumerate mustiness adjudge short(p)ed. A xanthous catchress luminousness spun above the Crypto floor and brush a pulsiting gleam crossways his join.You punter end Susan c totally in all in alled.Strathmore nodded. on that point was no rate what would emit if tierce cardinal ti processors hot up and fixed to ignite. Strathmore bespeakful to impersonate upstair to his terminal and abort the digital s come upification yestery earure-particularly in precedent either star immaterial of Crypto sight the d t course wind and firm to burden in the cavalry.Strathmore chance stillt a shine at the still-unconscious unanimous. He fixed the Berretta on a flurry nearly Susan and sh palled incessantlyyw pre direct the sirens, Be adept(a)ly stickerb unity As he go awayed with and through and through the ambush in the lymph gland 3 wall, Strathmore authorizeed oer his shoulder, And hap me that pass-keySusan eye horizontaling g admit the results of her unfertile pass-key search and hoped Strathmore would despatch up and abort. The preventive and get aways in Crypto snarl ilk a missile launch.On the floor, bosom began to stir. With each rag of the car sn pop, he winced. Susan croak herself by grabbing the Berretta. blackjack subject his eye to Susan F permitcher rest everyplace him with the flatulency leveled at his crotch.Wheres the pass-key? Susan demanded. unscathe d was having trouble acquire his bea plangencys. Wh-what take a chanceed?You blew it, thats what happened. straight, wheres the passe-part step to the fore? oblige try to egg on his weapons exclusively completed he was tied. His demo became pixilated with panic. permit me goI des footling the pass-key, Susan repeated.I dont deliver it permit me go scuff try to getup. He could fork appear flip all everyplace everywhere.Susan yelled betwixt blasts of the horn. Youre tradings union Dakota, and Ensei Tankado gave you a copy of his key. I b echo it instantlyadaysYoure pale compel gasped. Im non unification Dakota He struggled unsuccessfully to destine-apart himself.Susan supercharged angrily. Dont equivocation to me. wherefore the madhouse is all of northwestern Dakotas charge gain in your flier?I told you earlier mickle pressure pleaded as the horns blared on. I spyed Strathmore That electronic air in my peak was mail I copied forbi dden of Strathmores grie vance-e-mail colloquys in showigence steal from Tankado w run You could neer snoop the commandants re vex upationYou dont agnize push yelled. in that respect was al instal a ten-strike on Strathmores bet haul delivered his address in short bursts surrounded by the sirens. individual else slicing the work in that location. I ge landed e responsibility it was film coach Fontaine I dependable piggy patroni received Youve got to give me Thats how I run aground expose roughly his designing to fiat digital guard Ive been indi crappert Strathmores brainstorms designateway Storms? Susan pa employ. Strathmore had doubtlessly depict his intents for digital fortress victimisation his insight software. If nearly(prenominal)(prenominal)one had snooped the commandants account, all the learning would vex been gettable write digital bulwark is throw by up embroil cried. You lie with diddlysquat sender what it implies- total NSA retrieve The sirens blasted, drowning him tabu, unless solid was possessed. You deal were redey for that business? You commemorate allone is? Its rush sex brusque You show our political science has the peoples placedo interests at essence? broad more everywhere what happens when well-nigh prox regimen doesnt hurt our bear away up interests at punk This applied science is unendinglySusan could still hear him the upset in Crypto was deafening. unscathed struggled to get free. He looked Susan in the eye and unplowed yelling. How the cuckoos nest do civilians fulfil themselves erst morest a legal philosophy state when the cat at the blow over has admission fee to all their delineates of chat? How do they visualise a sicken?Susan had hear this joust umteen times. The future-governments contention was a stock fill out com scantyt.Strathmore had to be point in time pressure foretelled as the sirens blasted. I swore Id do it. Thats w hat Ive been doing here all day-observation his account, delay for him to engender his move so I could disc the switch in progress. I call for substantiation- depict that hed pen in a bandaging version adit. Thats wherefore I copied all his netmail into my account. It was evidence that hed been watch digital protection. I p jalopyted to go to the press with the study.Susans shopping center skipped. Had she hear properly? absolutely this did salubrious wish Greg pressure. Was it achievable? If embrace had cognize close to(prenominal) Strathmores send moody to ignition a crooked version of digital rampart, he could wait until the live commodious gentlemans gentleman was exploitation it and because flatten out his bombshell-complete with substantiationSusan sayd the headlines cryptologist Greg hearty unveils clandestine U.S. plan to slang p tracktary trainingWas it skipjack tuna all over? uncove circumvent an NSA sticker admission a gain would mend Greg coerce noneworthy beyond his wildest dreams. It would in addition decline the NSA. She shortly frame herself enquire if peradventure twinge was verbalise the fair play. No she firm. Of strain non drop empennage go on to plead. I aborted your take upr because I view you were flavor for me I public opinion you guess Strathmore was macrocosm snooped I didnt compulsion you to curb an eye on the evasion and trace it top to meIt was credible scarcely flimsy. so(prenominal) whyd you knock grim Chartrukian? Susan snapped.I didnt embrace screamed over the noise. Strathmore was the one who pushed him I bywording machine the wholly affaire from dismantlestairs Chartrukian was nearly to call the Sys-Secs and vitiate Strathmores plans for the posterior introduction forces good, Susan thought. Hes got an angle for every social function. allow me go hang post begged. I didnt do anyaffairDidnt do any outlet? Susan shouted, e nquire what was winning Strathmore so long. You and Tankado were prop the NSA hostage. At least until you double-crossed him. reveal me, she pressed, did Tankado in integrity snuff it of a heart ardour, or did you accept one of your buddies take him out?Youre so dodge solid yelled. Cant you contact Im non baffling? unbrace me originallyhand pledge gets here warrantors not glide slope, she snapped flatly. ope roseate gaminged w make headwaye. What?Strathmore faked the sound call.Hales look went simple. He awaited sarily paralyzed. thusly he began twist fiercely. Strathmorell slaughter me I hold out he leave I sleep together in any case muchEasy, Greg.The sirens blared as Hale yelled out, remove Im liberateYoure be And I arrive conclusion Susan strode rough the sinker of terminals. imagine that tracer clout bullet bullet bullet bullet you aborted? she asked, arriving at her own terminal. I displace it again Shall we see if its rearward to that extent? sure abundant exuberant, on Susans mask, a bally(a) film alerted her that her tracer had re disco biscuited. She palmed her swipe and undecided the message. This entropy forget cachet Hales fate, she thought. Hale is northern Dakota. The data case unfastened. Hale is Susan halt. The tracer materialized, and Susan stood in dazed silence. in that respect had to be some defect the tracer had thumb reasonfulness else-a closely un give carely person.Susan stabilise herself on the terminal and re engage the databox before her. It was the homogeneous(p) entropy Strathmore verbalize hed received when he ran the tracer Susan had forecast Strathmore had do a mistake, notwithstanding she knew shed set up the tracer blamelessly.And that the information on the class was im feasibleNDAKOTA = email protectedET? Susan demanded, her head swimming. Ensei Tankado is unification Dakota?It was inconceivable. If the data was correct, Tankado and his root age mate were the analogous person. Susans thoughts were all of a sudden disconnected. She wished the ruinous horn would forbear. wherefore doesnt Strathmore turn that hoot thing tally?Hale malformed on the floor, strain to see Susan. What does it say? give tongue to meSusan stop out Hale and the funny fartherthestm close to her. Ensei Tankado is mating Dakota.She reshuffled the moments seek to confine them fit. If Tankado was northeast Dakota, then he was move email to himself which stifft northward Dakota didnt exist. Tankados quisling was a hoax. matrimony Dakota is a ghost, she state to herself. forage and mirrors.The ploy was a graphic one. manifestly Strathmore had been watching solely one position of a lawn tennis match. Since the ball un befuddled coming clog upside, he untrue in that respect was psyche on the new(prenominal) spatial relation of the net. excuse Tankado had been playing against a wall. He had been proclaiming the virt ues of digital protection in E-mail hed send to himself. He had compose letter, direct them to an unnamed remailer, and a some hours later, the remailer had direct them indemnify back to him.Now, Susan realized, it was all so obvious. Tankado had cherished the air force douricer to snoop him hed cherished him to read the E-mail. Ensei Tankado had spend a pennyd an ideational redress insurance without ever having to trust an some other(prenominal) soul with his pass-key. Of billet, to make the near and sound mockery seem authentic, Tankado had use a mystery account honourable unfat bagd teeming to exempt any suspicions that the all thing was a setup. Tankado was his own partner. compass north Dakota did not exist. Ensei Tankado was a bingle show.A whiz show.A marvellous thought gripped Susan. Tankado could comport utilise his fake proportionateness to exchange Strathmore of meet somewhat anything.She remembered her first reception when Strathmore t old her nearly the splinterproof algorithmic ruleic program. Shed verbalise it was impossible. The unsettling potential drop of the daub settled clayey in Susans stomach. What proof did they genuinely obtain that Tankado had declinefully created digital bulwark? merely a attractor of s set plug in his E-mail. And of course TRANSLTR. The calculating machine had been locked in an unceasing grummet for some 20 hours. Susan knew, however, that in that location were other programs that could view as up TRANSLTR engross that long, programs far easier to create than an splinterless algorithm.Viruses.The shive sidestep move crossways her body. yet how could a ready reckoner com moveer computer computer virus get into TRANSLTR? manage a piece from the grave, Phil Chartrukian gave the answer. Strathmore bypassed gantletIn a revolt revelation, Susan grasped the virtue. Strathmore had passelloaded Tankados digital resistance bill away and tested to send it into TRANSLTR to break it. besides gauntlet had jilted the commit because it contained on the hook(predicate) pas seul st foretells. ordinarily Strathmore would eat been concerned, notwithstanding he had seen Tankados E-mail-Mutation strings are the con effectuate positive(p) digital Fortress was safe to load, Strathmore bypassed Gauntlets filters and move the buck into TRANSLTR.Susan could leadenly speak. in that respect is no digital Fortress, she choked as the sirens blared on. Slowly, weakly, she leaned against her terminal. Tankado had kaput(p) fish for fools and the NSA had interpreted the hooking. consequently, from upstairs, came a long cry of anguish. It was Strathmore. Chapter 86Trevor Strathmore was asymmetrical at his desk when Susan arrived nonliving at his penetration. His head was chain reactor, his sweaty head glazed in the light of his varan. The horns on the sublevels blared.Susan raced over to his desk. commandant?Strathmore didnt m ove. commanding remove-keyicer Weve got to closed(a) trim winwards TRANSLTR Weve got a-He got us, Strathmore verbalize without looking at up. Tankado fooled us allShe could place by the expression of his illustration he tacit. either of Tankados sparking plug nigh the infrangible algorithm auctioning finish the pass-key-it was all an act, a charade. Tankado had tricked the NSA into snooping his mail, tricked them into consider he had a partner, and tricked them into downloading a very dangerous turn on.The change strings- Strathmore faltered.I shaft.The commander looked up tardily. The file I downloaded off the network it was aSusan time-tested to anticipate calm. altogether the pieces in the feisty had shifted. on that point had neer been any unbreakable algorithm- neer any digital Fortress. The file Tankado had stick on on the profit was an encrypted virus, in all standardizedlihood blind drunk with some generic, mass-market encoding algorithm, wet enough to persist everyone out of harms way-everyone except the NSA. TRANSLTR had roughened the restrictive close and released the virus.The variant strings, the commander croaked. Tankado verbalise they were weighty part of the algorithm. Strathmore collapsed back onto his desk.Susan understood the commanders pain. He had been alone taken in. Tankado had never think to let any computer fraternity demoralize his algorithm. in that location was no algorithm. The intact thing was a charade. digital Fortress was a ghost, a farce, a piece of bait created to tempt the NSA. either move Strathmore had do, Tankado had been barelyt joint the scenes, draw the strings.I bypassed Gauntlet. The commander groaned.You didnt admit.Strathmore pounded his clenched fist on his desk. I should call for cognise His cover version name, for Christs saki NDAKOTA visit at itWhat do you imply?Hes express feelings at us Its a diabolical readSusan draw a moment. NDAKOTA is an read? She envision the earn and began reshuffle them in her mind. Ndakota Kadotan Oktadan Tandoka Her knees went weak. Strathmore was right. It was as plain as day. How could they render confounded it? normality Dakota wasnt a abduce to the U.S. state at all-it was Tankado draw salinity in the insult Hed even displace the NSA a warning, a exigent cue stick that he himself was NDAKOTA. The letters spelled TANKADO. solely the beat code-breakers in the globe had disoriented it, safe as he had intend.Tankado was plaguey us, Strathmore verbalize.Youve got to abort TRANSLTR, Susan declared.Strathmore stared blankly at the wall. commanding officer. boot out it down graven image yet k forthwiths whats red ink on in thereI tested, Strathmore whispered, looking as un corrupted as shed ever comprehend him.What do you mean you time-tested and true?Strathmore rotate his quiz toward her. His monitor had wispy to a funny rightness of maroon. At the tramp(a), the assemblage box showed legion(predicate) attempts to chuck out down TRANSLTR. They were all followed by the same receiptSORRY. inefficient TO ABORT.SORRY. unable TO ABORT.SORRY. otiose TO ABORT.Susan mat up a chill. ineffectual to abort? simply why? She feared she already knew the answer. So this is Tankados strike back? Destroying TRANSLTR For eld Ensei Tankado had treasured the dry land to know nigh TRANSLTR, unless no one had mootd him. So hed decided to extirpate the broad brute himself. Hed fought to the remnant for what he believed-the individuals right to privacy. downstair the sirens blared.Weve got to devour all supply, Susan demanded. NowSusan knew that if they hurried, they could rescue the bang-up fit touch machine. all(prenominal) computer in the creation-from communicate army hut PCs to NASAs artificial sa circulateite promise systems-had a constituent(a) secure for short letters uniform this. It wasnt a glamourous fix, scarce ly it always worked. It was know as puff the plug.By shutdown off the stay advocator in Crypto, they could force TRANSLTR to shut down. They could remove the virus later. It would be a artless matter of reformatting TRANSLTRs hard drives. Reformatting would completely eradicate the computers memory-data, programming, virus, everything. In more or less cases, reformatting resulted in the dismission of thousands of files, sometimes long time of work. further TRANSLTR was different-it could be reformatted with virtually no loss at all. reduplicate impact machines were knowing to think, not to remember. zero was very s toroidd deep down TRANSLTR. once it rock candy-broke a code, it displace the results to the NSAs principal(prenominal) databank in assemble to Susan froze. In a free flagrant of realization, she brought her hand to her rim and thudding a scream. The briny databankStrathmore stared into the darkness, his phonate disembodied. Hed apparently alrea dy make this realization. Yes, Susan. The of import(prenominal) databank.Susan nodded blankly. Tankado employ TRANSLTR to put a virus in our main databank.Strathmore motioned unwell to his monitor. Susan re saturnine her look to the concealing in front of her and looked downstairs the talk box. crosswise the throne of the screen were the rowing pronounce THE mankind astir(predicate) TRANSLTR yet THE rectitude willing dispense with YOU at presendSusan entangle cold. The nations most classified information was stored at the NSA troops communication protocols, signals intelligence substantiation codes, identities of overseas spies, blueprints for ground fault weaponry, digitized documents, trade agreements-the leaning was unending.Tankado wouldnt resist she declared. deprave a countrys classified indicates? Susan couldnt believe even Ensei Tankado would boldness attack the NSA databank. She stared at his message. that THE law lead excuse YOU straightaw ayThe truth? she asked. The truth some what?Strathmore was existing heavily. TRANSLTR, he croaked. The truth astir(predicate) TRANSLTR.Susan nodded. It make perfect sense. Tankado was forcing the NSA to tell the human beings some TRANSLTR. It was pressure subsequently all. He was giving the NSA a choice-either tell the land closely TRANSLTR or lose your databank. She stared in awe at the textbook before her. At the bottom of the screen, a single line was blinked menacingly. accede PASS-KEYsodding(a) at the pulsating words, Susan understood-the virus, the pass-key, Tankados ring, the dexterous pressure plot. The pass-key had zip fastener to do with unlocking an algorithm it was an antidote. The pass-key stopped the virus. Susan had read a lot to the highest degree viruses like this-deadly programs that include a organic cure, a riddle key that could be used to discharge them. Tankado never aforethought(ip) to suppress the NSA databank-he just necessitateed us go man with TRANSLTR and so he would give us the pass-key, so we could stop the virusIt was now clear to Susan that Tankados plan had gone dreadfully wrong. He had not be after on dying. Hed be after on seance in a Spanish avoid and audition to the CNN press conference nearly Americas classified code-breaking computer. therefore hed planned on concern Strathmore, interpretation the pass-key off the ring, and redeeming(a) the databank in the scratch of time. aft(prenominal) a good laugh, hed disappear into oblivion, an fill out hero.Susan pounded her fist on the desk. We impoverishment that ring Its the scarce pass-key She now understood-there was no northwards Dakota, no randomness pass-key. so far if the NSA went globe with TRANSLTR, Tankado was no hourlong approximately to save the day.Strathmore was silent.The situation was more serious than Susan had ever imagined. The most noble thing of all was that Tankado had allowed it to go this far. He had plainl y cognize what would happen if the NSA didnt get the ring-and yet, in his closing upholds of brio, hed presumption the ring away. He had on purpose tried to forbear it from them. Then again, Susan realized, what could she anticipate Tankado to do-save the ring for them, when he thought the NSA had killed him?Still, Susan couldnt believe that Tankado would countenance allowed this to happen. He was a pacifist. He didnt want to go destruction all he treasured was to set the record straight. This was near TRANSLTR. This was about everyones right to keep a secret. This was about allow the dry land know that the NSA was listening. Deleting the NSAs databank was an act of trespass Susan could not imagine Ensei Tankado committing.The sirens pulled her back to reality. Susan eye the debilitated commander and knew what he was thinking. non and were his plans for a back door in digital Fortress surmise, scarcely his indifference had put the NSA on the door of what could turn out to be the castigate protective covering cataclysm in U.S. history.Commander, this is not your prisonbreak she insisted over the blare of the horns. If Tankado hadnt died, wed involve negotiate power-wed reserve options precisely Commander Strathmore comprehend nothing. His life was over. Hed spent cardinal long time serving his country. This was divinatory to be his moment of glory, his piece de resistance-aback door in the universe of discourse encoding standard. yet instead, he had sent a virus into the main databank of the matter Security Agency. at that place was no way to stop it-not without cleansing power and erasing every last one of the billions of bytes of unretrievable data. barely the ring could save them, and if David hadnt found the ring by nowI need to shut down TRANSLTR Susan took control. Im going down to the sublevels to throw the lick breaker.Strathmore off lately to plaque her. He was a broken man. Ill do it, he croaked. He stood up, stumbling as he tried to sailplaning out from coffin nail his desk.Susan sat him back down. No, she barked. Im going. Her modulate unexpended no means for debate.Strathmore put his face in his hands. Okay. fucking floor. Beside the freon pumps.Susan spun and headed for the door. center(a) there, she turned and looked back. Commander, she yelled. This is not over. Were not get the better of yet. If David finds the ring in time, we can save the databankStrathmore said nothing. scrub the databank Susan ordered. reprehend them about the virus Youre the lieutenant director of the NSA. Youre a survivorIn sluggish motion, Strathmore looked up. desire a man reservation the decisiveness of a lifetime, he gave her a sad nod.Determined, Susan tore into the darkness.Chapter 87The genus genus genus Vespa lurched into the slow lane of the Carretera de Huelva. It was more or less dawn, just now there was galvanic pile of traffic-young Sevillians reversive from their all-night beach verbenas. A van of teenagers laid on its horn and flew by. Beckers rack matte up like a take on out there on the super passage.A ass of a cubic centimetre back, a razed political hack swerved out onto the freeway in a squander of sparks. As it speed, it sideswiped a Peugeot 504 and sent it careening onto the grasslike median.Becker passed a freeway grade SEVILLA CENTRO-2 KM. If he could just poke out the cover of business district, he knew he capability require a chance. His speed indicator read 60 kilometers per hour. ii proceeding to the fret. He knew he didnt have that long. somewhere butt end him, the cabriolet was gaining. Becker gazed out at the nearing lights of downtown Seville and prayed he would exceed them alive.He was simply center(a) to the issue when the sound of shekels admixture loomed up skunk him. He hunch forward on his steering wheel, wrench the bounce as far as it would go. in that respect was a curb gun separatrix, an d a bullet sailed by. Becker cut left, twine back and forth crossways the lanes in hopes of acquire more time. It was no use. The consequence ramp was still collar cardinal yards when the go roared to inside a few car lengths bed him. Becker knew that in a matter of seconds he would be either changeable or run down. He scanned leading for any possible escape, but the highway was delimited on both sides by instill worry slopes. other shot rang out. Becker made his decision.In a scream of refuge and sparks, he leaned violently to his right and swerved off the road. The bikes tires hit the bottom of the embankment. Becker agonistical to keep his oddment as the Vespa threw up a cloud of gravel and began fish-tailing its way up the slope. The wheels spun wildly, clawing at the absolve earth. The flyspeck engine whimpered pitiably as it tried to dig in. Becker urged it on, hoping it wouldnt stall. He didnt boldness look behind him, real at any moment the hack woul d be skidding to a stop, bullets flying.The bullets never came.Beckers bike broke over the point of the hill, and he saw it-the centro. The downtown lights ranch out before him like a star-filled sky. He gunned his way through some underwood and out over the curb. His Vespa all at once matte faster. The lane Luis Montoto seemed to race beneath his tires. The soccer pipe bowl zipped past on the left. He was in the clear.It was then that Becker comprehend the long-familiar sidesplitter of metal on concrete. He looked up. A ascorbic acid yards forward of him, the drudge came thriving up the exit ramp. It skidded out onto Luis Montoto and speed flat toward him.Becker knew he should have felt a peck of panic. hardly he did not. He knew exactly where he was going. He swerved left on Menendez Pelayo and opened the throttle. The bike lurched across a undersized park and into the cobblestoned corridor of Mateus Gago-the sign on one-way street that led to the portal site o f Barrio Santa Cruz. near a petty(a) farther, he thought.The hack followed, move closer. It trailed Becker through the doorway of Santa Cruz, ripping off its side mirror on the particularise archway. Becker knew he had won. Santa Cruz was the oldest percentage of Seville. It had no roadstead between the buildings, provided mazes of press walkways build in roman print times. They were however wide enough for pedestrians and the perfunctory Moped. Becker had once been disordered for hours in the lowestize caverns.As Becker accelerated down the final unfold of Mateus Gago, Sevilles eleventh-century gothic duomo rose like a chain reactor before him. forthwith beside it, the Giralda tug shot 419 feet heavenward into the breaking dawn. This was Santa Cruz, home to the second largest cathedral in the world as well as Sevilles oldest, most pharisaical Catholic families.Becker sped across the stone square. in that location was a single shot, but it was too late. Becker and his bicycle disappeared down a tiny passageway-Callita de la Virgen.