Twenty-four hours later, a private Sikorsky S-76 helicopter descended through a bank of low, swirling mist onto the rocky plateau of Vance Castle in the Scottish Highlands. Situated on a sheer, windswept promontory high above the churning gray waters of the North Sea in Aberdeenshire, Vance Castle was an imposing medieval fortress of weathered dark granite, ancient battlements, and soaring round towers dating back to the eleventh century. Here, three…
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