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“You’ve never shot anyone”

“And hopefully I won’t have to this time These are white-collar criun and tries to use it, they’ll be dead before they can pull the trigger Count on it”

After they hung up, Aidan looked down to where he was gripping his pen htly than he’d realized He’d never been able to talk Si once she made up her stubborn mind This time had been no different

Four Seasons Hotel, Palo Alto

1 March

Thursday, 12:05 pm local time

Terri answered on the first ring “Yes?”

“I’an without prelude She was squatting in front of her rooe she needed while si her pistol and ammunition Those she set aside for the moment

“I’ift box you sent Aidan”

“Good You knohat you’re looking for?”

“Aidan told ot the key fob,” she said, extracting the item “How does it work?”

“Think of it as a really small cell phone” Terri explained the device in the simplest terms possible to Simone “The difference is, there’s no speaker in the key fob, so no one can hear your side of the conversation Only you can hear what’s going on in their location The microphone is optimized to be very sensitive and to pick up sounds in all directions”

Si her lips as she turned the device over in her hands It looked totally innocuous “So the conversations going on in Jia li’s apartment will be transmitted to my cell phone I’ll have conferenced you in so you can listen and record what’s being said”

“Exactly Also, you and I can talk to one another without being heard, just as if we’ve placed them on mute”

“Okay” Sie and extracted the black box labelled: Windsor “I’ve got the cell phone interceptor gadget”