He looked at the file name again. URKK was the ICAO code for Krasnodar International Airport. 071 wasn't a sequence number; it was a year.
The file wasn't a recording of the past. It was a countdown. URKK-071.mp4
The file had been recovered from a submerged car in the Black Sea, near the port of Novorossiysk. No driver, no signs of a struggle—just the drive tucked into the sun visor. He clicked play. He looked at the file name again