Chapter 178 The Truth
Joy Reacher recovered quickly and has been transferred from the ICU to a regular double ward. Naturally, the person in the same ward with him was Chris, who had been shot in the leg.
However, in Jack's view, there is still a gap in the treatment of the two. Dana, who has not seen him for a long time, is feeding fruits to Chris by the hospital bed. In contrast, Joey is alone. It looks much more pitiful.
The Hunters did not enter the hospital. The two old men took the two children of the Heburg family directly to a hotel not far from the hospital to rest. Charlie followed everyone into the ward.
Dana looked much more confident than before. She was dressed in black professional attire. Jack keenly observed that she was actually wearing a gun.
"Dana is now an analyst for the IRS. Before Director Ray King arrived, she was the plenipotentiary representative."
After greeting everyone, Hannah introduced in a low voice. Jack was in a daze. How long had it been? , the IRS doesn’t require training when recruiting people.
“Joe!” The two Reacher brothers reunited after a long absence. When they saw their brother wearing an oxygen mask on the hospital bed, Jack Reacher no longer looked like a tough guy. , his eyes turned red instantly.
"Hey, brother." The weak Joey greeted softly.
"I didn't expect to see you here. I talked to you about Blind Blake. I just knew that you like blues. Maybe I will go to that town to see it one day."
Jack Reacher squatted down in front of the hospital bed like a big bear and held Joey's hand tightly.
"You should ask me for help. Have you forgotten your mother's dying instructions? You can't handle everything by yourself."
A wry smile appeared on Joey's face, " Now I can't do anything while lying here. The rest is up to you. Help me take down the Kleiner family."
The two brothers didn't talk much and simply talked about old times for a while. Let’s get right to the point.
Jack stepped forward and briefly introduced himself. Joey had been in a coma before, and this was the first official meeting between the two.
"The two ladies informed me of your purpose when they were taking care of me."
Joy's eyes swept over Hannah and Zoe behind him.
"I asked them to contact my colleague in the Secret Service, Molly Beth Gordon, who is coming to Atlanta with the information."
"With all due respect, Grams There was once a congressman standing behind the Lenner family, and they infiltrated various law enforcement agencies."
Jack also said that after all, there must be something behind Joey's accident, and there must be someone who knows his identity. Kleiner was tipped off.
Joey showed a smile and said, "I know, but Molly is trustworthy and our relationship is very close."
Is it another office romance?
Joy, who saw his brother, willed him After the investigation was revealed, everyone finally fully understood the details of the Kleiner family.
Joy is the director of the Secret Service’s Office of Investigations, and is mainly responsible for cracking down on the counterfeiting of antiques and swords. He spent three years, through administrative orders and some related procedures, completely blocking the counterfeiting of antiques and swords in the United States. Manufacturing of counterfeit banknotes.
He did not elaborate, but Jack could guess that it was probably a process to control the sales of acid-free paper and trace the entire process from production to sale.
Afterwards, Joey devoted himself to the pursuit of international counterfeit banknotes.
“Unlike the hundred-dollar bills that we rarely see in China, 80% of the swords in the international market are hundred-dollar bills, which are circulated through underground transactions such as D goods, weapons, and human trafficking.”< br>
“After my research with two economics professors from Columbia University, I found that in the past ten years, nearly 10 billion dollars have flowed out of Venezuela to the world, even after I blocked the use of raw paper. It didn’t decrease, so I did something.”
Seeing Joey cough twice, Jack Reacher quickly took a cup from the cabinet next to him and dipped a cotton swab in water. , moistened his lips for him. "I never thought I would be taken care of by you one day, brother." Joey smiled bitterly and continued.
"I persuaded the superiors to increase funding for the Coast Guard, and they maintained strict patrols on the southeastern coast for half a year. As a result, in the past six months, the shipment of counterfeit banknotes in Venezuela has almost been interrupted."
"Here After that, a group of South American mercenaries began to enter the country frequently, and I followed the clues and came to the town of Margrave."
Jack nodded frequently. This is a link to link and making full use of the resources at hand. A smart person's approach. If the Kleiner family hadn't turned over the table without respecting martial ethics in the end, it's very likely that Joey could overturn the entire profit chain on his own.
“So, you suspect that the place of origin of these counterfeit bills is Margrave, Georgia.”
Joy nodded, “Yes, and I found out how they made the counterfeit bills. .”
"They collected a large number of small-denomination banknotes, used a special technology to bleach the ink on them, and then reprinted them into old versions, hundred-dollar bills before the 1990s. This way, they don't need to consider the security strips and can just make them old."
"Unfortunately, the truck driver who was willing to be a tainted witness and transported the counterfeit money to Florida for them was beaten to death when he met me."
"And although I passed the test before Some means have prevented them from obtaining small-denomination banknotes from the retail industry, but for some reason, they seem to have found new channels in the past few months."
When Jack heard this, he added Paul Heborg's. His wife Charlie came over, "I think she can explain the source of these new channels."
Having seen the previous chase and the audience just now, Charlie fully understood the current situation, and Charlie no longer Concealed, Paul was coerced and forced to cooperate with the Kleiner family to collect small-denomination banknotes through the banking industry.
"When you see a man nailed to a wall and castrated in front of you, you just do what they say. Paul was forced. Kleiner completely destroyed our family. "
After Charlie said everything, she was already full of tears.
Now everything is connected, especially the two Jacks, who look at each other tacitly, each with a plan in mind.
Only Hannah still had some questions, and she asked at the beginning, "Then what does all this have to do with the murder of my parents and the Environmental Protection Agency investigator?"
We talked for a long time. , Joey, who was getting weaker and weaker, was about to speak when Jack Reacher spoke for his brother.
"Sewage, cleaning ink will produce a lot of industrial sewage."
Jack nodded: "Yes, the Kleiner family first printed counterfeit banknotes in Texas, and the sewage caused the river near your home to be polluted. , they murdered the investigators and your parents, and moved the factory to Margrave. "
Hannah gritted her teeth and remained silent, her whole body trembling with anger, and Zoe hugged her pitifully. In his arms, he whispered a few words of comfort and then asked.
"Then why is there no sewage pollution problem here? I checked the map and there isn't even a decent river or lake near here."
"The ranch, they have purified the sewage." Rosko, who had been listening in, suddenly realized.
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