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+Maryam, I found Jodie at Olympia and she has chapter six already. She had been leading the MIDAS
+operatives on a wild goose chase around Selcuk making a lot of noise about looking for the missing
+chapter at the Temple of Artemis. That gave me time to retrieve it from Jodie's friend at the
+British Museum, which has a collection of artefacts from the Temple. Jodie says she knew we would
+figure out where to go next. The clue was in the locations. The first one was at the Great Pyramid,
+the second at the fort of Qaitbay which was built from the ruins of the Lighthouse at Alexandria and
+the third on Rhodes, among the ruins of the Colossus. The Knight's castle at Bodrum was built from
+the remains of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, hence the “grave” task of guarding the book. So all
+five chapters were found at the site of one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. The only
+remaining locations are the Statue of Zeus at Olympia and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and no-one
+has any idea where the gardens might have been, so the only place we could go next is Olympia. The
+clue at the end of chapter five points straight there, since lighting, bull and oak are all symbols
+of Zeus. We should be safe here because Jodie's network has sent her attackers on to London by
+laying a long trail of forged documents revealing the location of chapter five. That bought us
+enough time to locate and decipher chapter six. We had been thinking about the evolution of the
+Imperial Ciphers. Tacitus used both the Vigenere and Beaufort ciphers which are polyalphabetic
+versions of the Caesar shift, and at first we assumed that chapter six would be encrypted the same
+way. We were almost right. Meanwhile Jodie's unexpected talent for forgery has given me an idea. I
+think we might be able to turn our enemies on one another by exploiting her gift, but I know her
+current focus is figuring out where on earth the seventh wonder might be.
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