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We took a last look around the house, Conklin snapping pictures to take back to Brady and Jacobi, and we left by the back door Clapper was standing outside waiting for us

He pointed at the wood-frae at the end of the driveway adjacent to the house and at the three-person bo outside the roll-up doors

Clapper said, “Well, my friends, wait’ll you see this”

CHAPTER 16

IT WAS ALMOST five when Rich Conklin said to Lindsay, “I’ll call you after the ,” and dropped her at her car in the All-Day lot across fro, then headed inside and took the elevator to the fifth floor

Brady was already waiting in Jacobi’s corner office

“We , Lieu,” Conklin said

He had just taken a seat next to Brady on the tufted leather sofa when Chief Jacobi ca froled his body and dropped into the chair behind his big cherrywood desk

Jacobi’s new assistant, Toni Reynolds, breezed in with her coat buttoned and told Jacobi that Boxer called to say she couldn’t

“You’ve got approximately two hundred e-mails, Chief, and too many calls to count Mostly journalists and TV people You’re gonna be faent”

She handed Jacobi a sheet of paper and asked if he needed anything else “Speak now Otherwise, I’ home to my hubby”

When Toni had gone, Jacobi told Conklin and Brady about his day

“FBI section chief Gerson Oliver caot one objective If Grant threatened to kill folks, it’s dooes to the FBI

“If Grant blew up the big glass building all by himself—as he told Boxer—the case is ours”

Brady and Conklin nodded Jacobi continued