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Sandecker had been sitting back in his chair, fingers tented in front of hiht

“These hoodluht to the top We stad”

“She’s a ghost,” Austin said “Nobody even knohere she lives”

“She and Gogstad are the key,” Sandecker said firmly “Do we knohere their headquarters are?”

“They have offices in New York, Washington, and the West Coast There must be a dozen scattered across Europe and Asia”

“Quite the hydra,” Sandecker said

“Even if we knehere their central office was, it wouldn’t do itimate business They’ll deny any accusations we make”

Hiraer slipped quietly into the room and settled into a chair “Sorry,” he said “I had to run so” He looked expectantly at Austin, who took the cue

“I was thinking about so ship The sao I reasoned that this ship iven such a prostad, to go beyond the scant corporate stuff Max dug up for us”

Yaeger nodded “At Kurt’s suggestion I asked Max to go back and brush over the historical and nored before Tons of ine Kurt had said to look for a California connection, perhaps with the Mulholland Group Max picked up an interesting newspaper story A Norwegian designer of antique ships had costad ship for a wealthy client”

“Who was the client?” Austin asked

“The article didn’t say But it was easy to track down the Norwegian designer I called hio and asked about the job He had been sworn to secrecy, but it was years ago, and he didn’thouse”

“Big woman?”

“He iantess”

“Sounds like a Scandinavian folktale What’s this about the house?”