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Marc had already taken care of the rental arrangeeot 5008s at the closest place in Osijek Philip would pick up one, Marc the other The first would get Philip back to the faret Marc to the airport to collect Aidan, after which he’d drive them both out to join Philip at the rescue site

Sitting back now, Philip dismantled his ca “I’m finished for now,” he told Ivan via Ellie “I’d like to drive directly to Osijek so I can pick up my rental car”

“Fine,” Ivan said “I’ll leave you there and drive hoht?”

“No” Philip was peeling off two thousand dollars, holding the twenty hundred-dollar bills visibly in his hand “Once we reach Osijek, I’ll be thanking you for your help and hospitality” He added another ten hundred-dollar bills “And asking that you pass this along to Jozef with e all this for Croatian kuna without a probleht Please drive her to the Hotel Osijek in the ”

He turned to Ellie and spoke in a low tone “You and Derica have successfully conments Payment will be wired to you ASAP You can both return to Germany”

Ellie s Philip’s “It’s been a pleasure working with you”

Zermatt Group Offices

West 75th Street, Manhattan, New York

1 March

Thursday, 7:55 am local time

Inside the Cage, Terri sat back in her desk chair, a s s hours, she’d cracked David Cheng wide open, uncovering every facet of his life and, in the process, discovering a whole lot more

For starters, Cheng was receiving monthly wire transfers of twenty thousand dollars, deposited into his account on the first of every month just like an employee’s salary or an outside consultant’s retainer Each wire transfer had the same SWIFT code—SZDBCNBSOSA

Terri quickly identified that code

It belonged to a Chinese bank—specifically, Ping An Bank Located in the city of Shenzhen, the code indicated that it originated at headquarters, the offshore banking departe electronics asse company that employed tens of thousands of people

A company that would be crippled by the success of Nano’s new technology and that would thrive if it were able to control and exploit it against competitors