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Stone nodded “Any possibilities?”
“I’ve looked that issue up one side and down the other and I can’t find a viable suspect Da”
“So you suspected so like that too?”
“I always suspect soree with you that the other side seems to be always ahead of us But I don’t kno they’re doing it”
“We could lay a trap Channel inforh one source only and see if it ends up in the wrong hands”
“I don’t think whoever it is will fall for that”
“Worth a try?”
“Then arn them we suspect”
“If they’re as good as I think they are, they already know that we suspect”
“I’ to have to sit down, Oliver”
Stone helped his friend to another bench and then sat next to hi,” said Stone “Did what happened at the park cause Turkekul to change his plans in any way? Was the mission altered at all?”
McElroy didn’t answer right away “Of course it would have been completely altered if Fuat had been killed,” he pointed out “Altered to the point of being abandoned One would think that would have been the goal of the attack”
“Since the man didn’t die, we have to think of alternative reasons”
“I can think of none”
“For now, but we have to keep trying”
“It won’t be easy for you The FBI is looking to crush you Its director has already had awith your president I have also had the pleasure of your leader’s co in to the entreaty that you be removed from the case”
“Until they ”
“Pretty much sums up our professional lives, Oliver”
“Yes, it does”
“I wish you luck”
“I’ll need it”
“You’ll also need this”
McElroy took a memory stick from his pocket and handed it to Stone
“What is it?”
“The FBI’s preliminary report on the attack at the tree farm” As Stone looked uncertainly at the USB stick, McElroy added, “By the by, I had a coe earlier” He paused “You do knoork a computer, don’t you?”
“I can e And thanks”
“Cheers”
McElroy rose on stiffened legs and sloalked off
CHAPTER 39
STONE SAT BACK, RUBBED HIS EYES and yawned He poured out a last cup of coffee and surveyed the hted once more on his shiny new laptop coy surroundings as a Picasso hanging on the ould have
What was on thethan the computer itself The FBI, motivated no doubt by the h investigation of the tree far if not wholly surprising
Stone ticked off the points in his head
A sharp-eyed agent had noticed that a narrow section of the ce the foundation of Kravitz’s trailer hohter color They had removed this stack and entered the open space underneath and found bo with two basketballs, both of which had been cut in half
A review of John Kravitz’s personal history had found hiraduate as his boss Lloyd Wilder had noted But what Wilder hadn’t told them, or more likely didn’t knoas that Kravitz had been arrested twice in the past during rallies against the govern from antiwar protests to stem cell research Also found on his cell phone were naovernment watch lists
His neighbors had reported that Kravitz had acted suspiciously over the last feeeks, though Stone discounted that as witness bias since there had been no specific exaht that other than the police and FBI showing up at the man’s door