 Yet they had orders to conduct a full reconnaissance of the plant. Their armored car crawled counterclockwise around the complex at 10 kilometers an hour. Sergeant Vlaskin called out the radiation readings from the new instruments, and Logashov scribbled them down on a map, hand-drawn on a sheet of parchment paper and ballpoint pen and colored marker. One roach in per hour, then two, then three. They turned left and the figures began to rise quickly. Ten, thirty, fifty, a hundred.