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On the opposite side of the coap in the video ca their covert entrance Though Linc was the best the Corporation had at security bypasses, it had been Eddie who cut the wire for the si in the world couldn’t give hith to hold Linc’s two-hundred-and-fifty-pound frame

“So are we Standing by”

Keeping flat, Cabrillo led Murph away froly random pattern, but the route had been carefully mapped out so they avoided the nu, the roof sported several satellite dishes and a spindly radio transmission tower This was their destination, and it took sevento reach it

Juan re his hands around his eyes, pressed his face to aThere was a dilow of a computer on standby mode The preraid reconnaissance had confirmed that this was the camp director’s office

He note

d an alarm pod attached to thesash that would trip if the as opened He pulled a device from his colowed red Next, he swept the device along the glass to determine if wires had been embedded between the two panes, but the device remained dark If this was the level of security provided by Corinth’s finest colar

He attached two slass and then scored the ith a cutter,sliced never rose above a rough hiss He heard an audible sigh when the vacuulass were released He handed the cutter to Mark and carefully pulled the pane free of the frame with the suction cups He repeated the process with the inner piece of glass and set it on the floor inside the office when he was finished

Juan legged over the sill and ducked into the building When Mark had scrah the , Cabrillo dren the shade “We’re in the office”

“Roger,” Eddie replied

Juan gestured to the computer “It’s up to you”

Murph cracked his knuckles and took a seat behind the desk, turning down the screen before waking the system From a fanny pack, he removed a battered piece of electronics covered in decals and wads of dried gum He jacked it into the co skull appeared on the an to pound the keyboard with one ambidextrous hand while the other rolled the mouse like a child would a toy truck

Juan left hiht,certain he stayed away froap around the shade They had learned from the Responsivists’ website that the facility’s director was another Californian na showed that Martell had sold luxury autoroup, and that his naation of a car-theft ring Although he was charged, several key witnesses vanished back to Mexico before the trial, and the indictment was dropped

The room’s furniture hat Cabrillo expected—desk, credenza, a couple of chairs, a sofa along one ith a coffee table He recognized it was all expensive The Oriental rug under the coffee table was a flat-weave antique kilim that would fetch a considerable price at auction Fraraphs adorned the walls, Martell’s shrine to hi into the canizable He spotted several with Donna Sky Even in these candid shots, the movie star’s beauty was undeniable With her dark hair, almond eyes, and the sharpest cheekbones in the business, she was the epitome of Hollywood royalty

Cabrillo wondered idly what part of her life was so miserable that she would allow a cult to take it over

Another picture caught his attention It was an older photograph of Martell and another ned “Keep the faith Lydell Cooper” The snapshot must have been taken shortly before Cooper vanished at sea on his ketch He’d read the Coast Guard report, and it appeared that the boat simply capsized in a storm that had coht unaware, and an additional three people drowned