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“Maybe it was his joke on law enforcement,” said Claire “A fake lead tofor him”

I nodded

“That feels right, Claire He’s definitely screith us”

I know I looked defeated, and right then I felt that way I said, “Cindy, you can’t quote et you a one-on-one phoner with Jacobi”

“Excellent Thanks, Linds”

“I owe you,” I said

Cindy asked Yuki, “You have enough to ainst Grant?”

Yuki said, “Right now all we have is circumstantial evidence, but if Joe remembers what Grant said, that could be a clincher Either way, I’ to have to convince twelve men and women that thata seventy-fivethousand-square-foot building, and that he set that bonited it, witnessed it, and left not a trace”

PART TWO

CHAPTER 28

YUKI FELT THE tension spanning courtroom 2A froin

The jury had been seated and Judge Philip R Hoffman had taken the bench, where, flanked by Old Glory and the California state flag, he had instructed the jury The eight men and four women and their alternates in the jury box looked expectant and dead serious

This was a trial of a lifetime and they knew it

Hofflasses, ell known in San Francisco for presiding over highprofile cases—notably, the trial of a teenage girl who had returned frounned down her family of six

Yuki had history with Phil Hoffainst him in two trials when he was a criminal defense attorney She’d lost to hiht Hoffentlee, he was fair, and he didn’t stand for what he called funny business