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“Did you receive the photographs I sent you?” he asked in Mandarin

“I’ at them now,” Xu Wei replied, also in Mandarin

“We found nothing to directly tie Gallagher to Pennington’s activities regarding the Nano technology, but, as you can see, Gallagher has a very lucrative side job”

“Indeed” Xu Wei studied the photos box that contained nuether, along with dozens of plastic bags containing everything fro dealer,” he said “And a man of so little character and conscience would have no trouble coht price He could be our proverbial fly in the oint immediately and alert hi will be uous direction”

Jake’s Bar & Cocktail Lounge

28 February

Wednesday, 8:30 pm local time

Aidan parked his car in an alley just two blocks away fronition and turned to Ereen silk blouse that one of Aidan’s female contacts had picked up for her

“Let’s review this again,” he instructed her now “I’ve shown you photos, so you knohat our target looks like and you know he’s inside that bar, probably talking to a bunch of his tech friends”

Emma nodded iuy carries both a regular cell and a burner phone Fine I get it I’ to dial his regular number How do you know he’ll answer?”

“Once he sees the Caller ID, he’ll answer,” Aidan replied tersely He had no intention of telling Eic to ensure that the Caller ID would register as NanoUSA But Aidan knew that once David saw that and assurab the call in a New York minute “Watch carefully to see where he pulls his cell phone from After that…”

With the confidence of a pro, Emma waved away the rest of Aidan’s sentence “I don’t need to watch carefully No one wears jackets out here Which o for his shirt pocket or one of his front pants pockets If he goes for the pants, I’o for If he goes for the shirt, I’ll have to check out which hand he holds his phone in, so I’ll knohether he’s right-or left-handed, at which point I can figure out which of the front pockets is where he keeps his burner I’ll then borrow it”

Aidan opened hisa bemused shake of his head

Eotten just how good at this I aured I’d re off the seat beside her and tossed it at Aidan “I think that’s yours”

Aidan caught the wallet and turned it over in his hands “Shit,” he muttered “You’re scary”