Chapter 945 NYPD’s discovery and the erroneous DHS
“So, is the FBI ready to take over next?” On the way back to New York from Atlantic City, Reacher remained silent until the car drove into the city. area range.
"It depends on which step you want to achieve." Jack's answer surprised him slightly.
“This case involves an act of terrorism. Not only will the FBI be involved, but DHS has also joined in. They have marked all the aliases listed on Franz’s USB flash drive.
We are sure of it. Stop this transaction, but it is still unknown whether everyone involved in this case can be brought to justice, especially some powerful people who may exist, and this must include the person who killed your friend. .”
Although Jack is also a member of the FBI, because of this, he knows better about when the agency he is in will strike hard without hesitation, and who it will be obedient to.
What Reacher wants is to avenge his friends, but the FBI only wants credit.
Whether the person behind the "new era technology" is a military boss or a member of Congress, it means big trouble. The FBI and DHS are not necessarily afraid of causing trouble, but the premise is that there must be sufficient revenue and Its hedging.
Because it is related to an act of terrorism, the investigation will definitely continue, but with the current incomplete information, Jack is not sure to what extent the FBI and DHS investigations will ultimately proceed.
Based on his understanding of Lei Che, if the forces behind "New Era Technology" were also involved in the silencing operation against the special investigators, or even ordered it by them, then the big man would never give up. .
But for the officials, as long as they stop this arms deal that may involve terrorist acts in time, they have achieved their goal. As for the culprit, sorry, no one cares whether they can catch them all.
As long as any issue touches the political level, deal and compromise will always be the main theme. A certain bearded man who created 911 was originally a force supported by the US government. Have you ever seen anyone in the United States doing this? Take responsibility?
After killing the bearded man who made 911, everything seems to have settled down, and the same is true now.
Whether it is the FBI or DHS, once a large-scale investigation into "new era technology" and terrorism-related activities is launched, smart people will quickly cut it off.
Once the big shot behind the scenes noticed that something was not going well, he threw two bodies in the back that were shot eight times and committed suicide out of fear of crime.
The truth sometimes doesn't matter. Neither the FBI nor DHS can continue to investigate unless there are more interests or political strife.
“You can choose to wait and see for the time being, wait for the official investigation results, analyze whether there are real culprits behind the scenes, and then find ways to deal with them.
Or you can continue to investigate privately to see what is going on under the water. What kind of big fish is hidden?”
Jack gave a choice. If he didn’t want to overly stimulate the big shots behind him, it would be best for “nobody” like Reach to stir up the muddy water and let them take their chances. Strategy.
"I prefer to avenge our friend with my own hands. First, I will turn him upside down and see who makes you worry about the big shot." Lei Che chose the latter option without even thinking about it.
He fully understood Jack's painstaking efforts, but the former option meant that the special investigators had completely lost their initiative, and something would inevitably slip through the net. At that time, if they wanted to take revenge, they would have to resort to extraordinary means, such as assassination.
Reacher can be alone and not care about anything, but Nigley, O'Donnell and Dixon are different. They all have families and it is impossible to risk everything for this.
He also didn’t want to drag Jack into a killing spree like he did in Margrave Town. The opponent was very clear that time, and the IRS was there to help.
This time the opponent is unknown, and Jack is an official FBI agent. It is not the big man's style to completely drag his friends into the water.
Although they may encounter great risks with the latter option and may end up like Franz, Sanchez, Orozco, and even Swann, the advantage is that they can always take the initiative. And it won't alarm the opponent too much.
After discovering the mastermind behind the scenes, the special investigators can plan calmly and take advantage of the troubled waters.
"OK, before we go back, let's go to this place first." Jack showed a location on his mobile phone in front of Nigli who was driving. "NYPD headquarters?" Sister Hei's eyes widened in surprise.
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“Shane Langston, the former NYPD Third Precinct Superintendent, 8 years ago, he and a group of his men were investigated by the Department of Internal Affairs, but as As they resigned one after another, some of the accusations were dismissed.”
In the NYPD Director's office, Frank Regan pushed a thick stack of materials in front of Jack with a dark face.
"Langston? Director of the security department of 'New Era Technology', Swann's immediate boss?" Reacher had an excellent memory and immediately thought of the employee list that Jack had shown him before. .
"It's not just Langston." Jack looked through the information one by one and finally concluded, "These people who resigned are now working in the security department of 'New Era Technology'.
In fact, it would be more appropriate to say the other way around. The security department of this company is operated by the NYPD It was composed of the criminal police officers of the Third Precinct, everyone except Swann."
"Although I was not the director of the NYPD at that time, I did not want to shirk responsibility. According to the current known internal investigation. situation, it was a New York City Councilman who intervened in the matter
Langston used some old connections to look up your information in the NYPD system, including your fake identity of Jack Lane. The relevant people have been controlled, this is what they said. "
After Frank finished speaking, he placed an inquiry record in front of the two of them.
"Don't alarm them yet. "Jack looked through the records and put them away, then stood up and prepared to leave.
"Contact me anytime if you need it. "Frank reached out to the two of them with an apologetic expression, although strictly speaking, this matter had nothing to do with him.
When the two Jacks walked out of the NYPD headquarters, Reacher was still in a daze, "Yesterday The voice on the late phone call was probably Langston, but why would the NYPD chief be so "
"Cooperate?" Jack finished his words for him, and then continued in a pretentious manner, "Maybe it's because he owes me some favors."
They met with the other three people waiting in the parking lot. Niggly continued driving toward Long Island.
Soon Jack met another person who owed him a favor, Joey Reacher, dressed in a black suit and waiting with two DHS agents similarly dressed as him, at the wanted criminal team's headquarters on Long Island. In a small office building.
After the Reacher brothers greeted each other, Jack arranged for everyone to sit down in the conference room. The older of the two agents following Joey looked a little embarrassed and spoke.
"Sorry, our people made a mistake."
According to agent Omar Karim, after the FBI handed over the list of aliases to DHS, they immediately flagged them in the system.
Then they discovered that one of the names, Adrian Mount, had entered the country from Los Angeles two days ago and then disappeared without a trace. On the same day, two ex-convicts who were good at forging passports were found dead in a place. Under the overpass.
That afternoon, another alias on the list, Alan McBride, took a flight from Los Angeles to Denver.
Last night, they discovered that "AM" continued to use the name Alan McBride to book a flight from Denver to New York at noon today, so they conducted control at Denver Airport.
But it is unclear whether "AM" noticed the abnormality or because of other reasons, it never appeared.
"Why didn't you deploy control at the New York airport and arrest him when he got off the plane? You don't have a real photo of him, do you?"
Nigli asked angrily, if the other party was aware of the ambush at the airport The DHS agents turned around and left the airport directly, which also meant that they completely lost the whereabouts of "AM" and could no longer track him based on this list of aliases.
(End of this chapter)