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“It did go well, actually,” Diaz said, lazing in the backseat

“What do you mean? What did Tomás say to you?”

“He said, ‘Please, man Don’t do this He’ll kill my family’ ”

“So To,” Parker said

Diaz nodded

“Apparently,” he said

CHAPTER 78

AFTER WE RETURNED TO HQ and relayed the info about Neves’s connection to Perrine, the reaction up the chain of command was impressive and immediate

FBI Assistant Director Dressler personally got on the phone to a senior intelligence analyst at none other than the NSA for a full Hobanger

TIA was an NSA superco tool that apparently could de-encrypt and scour each and every data source on the planet to find out about an individual There were no warrants involved, not even any formal requests to phone or credit card companies that could be turned down The

NSA hackers just went in wherever they needed to go and took what they wanted

It was supposed to have been shut down after a hue and cry by the ACLU about privacy, but apparently it wasn’t as shut down as the ACLU thought Which was fine byrules was the least we could do in stopping the utter savagery that Perrine aging on American citizens

I adet-her-done attitude He was even sh not to ask us hoe caress so he could nail Perrine’s ass to the floorboards Perrine had ent Mara The FBI was very, very pissed

I admired Diaz’s attitude just as much The Charles Bronson look-alike had certainly stepped up and taken charge of Neves back at the garage He was a throwback, one of those all-in all-the-time cops who knew the cold, brutal truth that sometimes the solution to a situation comes at the business end of a billy club

“Tell , John,” I said as we put our feet up with a cup of coffee at the back of the co You didn’t, perchance, have so that situation, did you?”