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FBI HEADQUARTERS

EARLY TUESDAY MORNING

SAVICH STOOD at the head of the conference table, looked out at the sea of faces

"MAX has found an assassin who is a high-probability fit for our murderer He has used the alias Günter Grass, middle name listed as Wilhelm He has used the saarrote, up close and personal, and ether for hient

"Yes," Savich said "The real Günter Wilhelm Grass won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999 Maybe some of you have read his first novel, The Tin Druht, even a sculptor He has described himself as a ‘ Sp&auhtenrown tired of reason

"No one knohy the killer selected this na about G&uu he wrote Steve and the behavioral sciences group at Quantico will be telling us oes by the nauy here in Washington, Johnny Baines, to Jacques Ramie in Lyons, and to Hans Claus in Berlin Günter Grass isn’t on their current radar because he hasn’t been active in well over ten years, at least not that anyone knows of That’s why it took MAX a little while to find him

"The German and French authorities are certain that no such person or anyone similar is connected to any known terrorist cell

"So the question is, where has the guy been? What’s he been doing? Where is he now? Still in Washington or long gone? And how did the person behind the two uy like this, a professional assassin?"

Jimmy Maitland said, "Of course, there is no one by this name currently here in the US, no passports or visas issued in that name Bottom line, we knoho he is, but we have no clue where he is"

Ben Raven asked, "No old photos? Nothing?"

Savich nodded "I’rainy old photo that Jacques Raitally, but it’s still not good You’ll see that it’s a photo of a , you can tell thatat the clothes, it would put the photo in the h he’s older now, he’s still got to be pretty strong to take out Justice Califano and Danny O’Malley"

Jih-risk places--it’s very rare for a professional A professional is in and out, clean and fast, gets the job done But our guy’s got to have this adrenaline shot We’ve never run into anything like that before"

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