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"No," I say, suddenly war has made me cold "I’m not inti the desk, where I find a feuard I’ve never seen before

"Hi," I say "I work for Brandon Enterprises I was here late two nights ago and a very nice guard helped uy with dark hair" I consider a moment "Late thirties maybe? I wanted to tell his supervisor how much I appreciated it"

Her brow furrows "We have a Randy, but he looks nothing like that Actually, I don’t know of anyone here that fits that description"

"Maybe I’"

"We still have no one that fits that description The two guys that were on that night were Randy and Josh, but he is twenty-five, blond, and good-looking"

That’s one ht, but it doesn’t help ht sick "It must have been a Brandon Enterprises employee Thanks anyway" I turn away and start for the elevator It could have been a Brandon eht? I mean, who else could it have been?

CHAPTER TEN

SHANE

By the ti outside the house of Brody Matthews’s estranged wife, preparing to negotiate her silence Ready to remove at least one noose from my neck, I instruct him to finish the job and meet me at my aparto to theardless of the price to the company It’s a detail that hassomeone else always represents the potential of betrayal, which I won’t even consider risking In the h the docuether for e fund data, which has a few potential red flags, est stockholder, Mike Rogers

When I’d agreed to save the co a professional basketball teaave Mike reason to supportto win his faith and keep hi for that reason, I open his file, and turn onyears of financial data, setting every other thought aside and losing ative process Time passes, and I down another cup of coffee before the doorbell rings Eyeingtolike hell Seth has contained at least one of our proble for, because he announces, "Brody’s wife took the payoff"

I give him a nod and motion him inside