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When she was done, D’Arcy sat back, holding the FBI report froh twice before putting it back in the folder “Suspicious circumstances?” he asked
“Yes, sir,” Keira responded promptly “The author of the report was killed as he walked ho, but there was one thing that stood out to investigators at the tiold watch and a wedding ring, neither of which was touched The case was never solved, even though the FBI supposedly threw the resources of their office behind the investigation”
“Supposedly?” D’Arcy asked, unerringly focusing on the most crucial element of her statement
Keira nodded “I can’t find a record of anyone in the FBI’s New York office being assigned to the investigation, butthe SAC reported to his superiors that the investigation was ongoing”
“In other words,” he said, voicing what they were all thinking, “the SAC—who is now the junior senator fro the New World Militia to the Russian ed for the author of the report to be killed, and hindered the subsequent investigation into the murder”
“Yes, sir,” Keira confirmed
“Great Just great” D’Arcy swiveled his chair away fro at the far wall “No wonder,” he said softly to himself
“Sir?” she asked
“That was the last unanswered question I had fro a cold face to her “Brooks betrayed Callahan’s partner, Josh Thurman, to the militia, but he never would say how he knew—that information was co about Thurman Now it all makes sense”
He added softly, “And here’s soht know, but maybe not Brooks was killed in prison less than a year after he and Walsh began serving their sentences Shanked by a fellow inmate in the prison yard And Walsh died—ostensibly from a heart attack—four months later”
“So, soot to themon the inside,” Cody said “Sounds more like the Russian mob than the militia”
D’Arcy frowned “Doesn’t matter either way They’re both dead, so neither one can add anything to the official record” He looked at Keira, then back at Cody “So, what’s your plan now?”
Keira glanced at Cody, shaking her head slightly, and he knew she was telling him she wasn’t prepared with an answer She’d uncovered the critical links, but
“The Praetor Corporation is the key,” Cody said, an idea cooes by the naton’s son—owns the coh a series of shell corporations Keira already found the link between it and NOANC But there’s got to be a paper trail between the Praetor Corporation and the Russian mob, as well as between the Russian mob and the New World Militia We just have to find it”
“Any ideas?” D’Arcy asked “And how do those last words of Callahan’s neighbor tie in? What about that key he gave Callahan?”
“No ideas yet,” Cody told hiured out what Tressler’s wordsyou should know Callahan wants in on the investigation”
D’Arcy picked up the FBI report again and looked frorio undercover with the militia in the first place He sacrificed his career and risked his life to put Pennington behind bars He trusted us—rae self-recrimination “I failed him”
He paused to gain control of his emotions “The militia—or the Russian mob—had men inside the FBI, inside the US Marshals Service Because of that, Pennington had Thuret to Callahan”