Chapter 950 Little Wings
Danny brought a group of NYPD over to clean up the mess. Fortunately, this is a cemetery. In addition to the relatives who came to attend Franz’s funeral, there were also Army soldiers on the honor guard, who blocked the news. It's not very difficult.
Originally, Jack planned to arrange for Franz's wife and son to take temporary refuge in Los Angeles after the funeral, but Director Reagan, who looked a bit worried, firmly opposed it. Now the protection task will be taken over by the NYPD's Internal Affairs Department.
To be honest, although he has a good relationship with the Reagan family now, Jack's trust in the NYPD is only that much. After all, the largest police department in the United States is too big, and the good and the bad are mixed, leading to endless problems. .
However, considering that the NYPD Internal Affairs Department had just gone through a round of purges, and that it was Director Reagan's personal arrangement, he didn't say anything more.
Danny was responsible for sending the injured to the hospital and promised to block the news for a while, because Reacher and the others planned to follow the gunman to the place where the final payment was paid in Queens.
Jack took off his disguise and took Jie Jie and Hannah back to the Federal Building. Clay and Aubrey were sent to Colorado by Jubal early this morning. They were going to investigate "New Era Technology" At the Denver factory, figure out why "AM" is there.
In the combat center, Alice and a dozen analysts were extremely busy. Reacher and the others "ransacked" too much data last night. There were several hard disks just pulled out from the server in the computer room. Ten bucks, plus a bunch of paper folders.
If you want to sort out this information in a short time, you can only add more manpower. Jubal made a temporary isolation in the large office of the combat center, and allocated the last third to them. , people come in and out from time to time carrying thick packages of information.
Jack placed two heavy bags on the table. Inside were packaged coffee and desserts. Caffeine and sugar help the brain think.
"Did you find anything?" He put a cup of cappuccino with hazelnut powder on the table, but Alice buried her head in a pile of information and didn't even see it.
“There is some but not much. Most of the information is consistent with the situation you have identified and can be mutually confirmed, such as the situation of the 'New Era Technology' security department.
Shane Lance Dun and his men from the NYPD Third Precinct occupied almost all the key positions, except for the deputy director."
Alice slapped a list in front of Jack without raising her head, something similar. He has already seen the list, which lists all the personnel with positions in the "New Era Technology" security department.
She also carefully compared this list with the black police list provided by Director Reagan. Almost everyone's name was circled on it, except for one person.
"Yes, except for Deputy Director Tony Swan, we were attacked just now while attending a funeral. The murderer confessed that he was hired by Swan, but this is obviously a frame-up. I suspect that the real messenger is very likely It's Shane Langston."
"You were attacked?" Alice looked up in surprise, and then noticed the band-aid on Hannah's face, "Honey, are you okay?"
Hannah, who had the Band-Aid on, seemed a little full of energy. She pointed at Jack with a smile, "It's just a little bit of skin damage. Some people are more hurt in their hearts. Jack's Hellcat was beaten to pieces."
"But it protects you two, so even if it costs the money of a new car, I will find a way to fix it." This is the Federal Building, and Jack can't do anything intimate, so he can only whisper Here comes some sweet talk.
This is the difference between having a ghost in your heart and not having a ghost in your heart. When he was in BAU, he and the chubby girl Garcia and Emily often teased each other. Now in New York, he has to pretend to be a gentleman.
These words made Hannah and Jiejie laugh sweetly, and made Alice, who was fed a mouthful of dog food, so sick that she shuddered and got back to the topic.
“I wonder why Tony Swan, who was a private detective a year ago, suddenly entered a large enterprise and directly became the deputy director of the security department. It is obvious that his background is similar to that of the gang of criminal police officers. Somewhat out of place.
So I studied his business email carefully, hoping to find some clues. "
"Then?" Jack knew that he must have found something.
Alice turned her computer screen in his direction, moved the mouse and clicked on a few emails, "You can see that almost all of Swann's emails are copied to his superior Langston and Several other security supervisors. "It makes sense. They are a team and naturally need to share information. Is there anything strange about this?" Jiejie was a little confused.
Alice closed these emails and clicked on another one, "Those emails are not strange, so the remaining ones are very interesting.
Swan and Operations Director Marlowe ·Burns sent several emails without copying them to anyone, although the contents did not involve any official business at first glance."
Jack frowned and read the contents of those emails. Some small talk about music, I don’t understand why Alice pays special attention to these emails.
"Is there anything special about this Marlo Burns?" The director of operations is usually at the vice president level of a company, a proper senior management level, second only to the CEO.
However, the security department of a defense company such as New Era Technology is relatively independent. It does not seem unreasonable for Swan, the deputy director of the security department, to have a personal relationship with the director of operations.
But when he thought about Alice saying that Swann was just a private detective a year ago, Jack couldn't help but be moved in his heart, "Is it possible that Swann was actually this Marlo Burns who was inserted into the security department? The purpose is to conduct some private investigations?”
“I don’t know, but I know that their relationship is not a couple. It is obviously safer and more convenient to communicate with each other through mobile phones. There is no need for them to use quilts. Corporate mailboxes monitored by the company send ambiguous emails unless they feel it is unsafe to use their mobile phones."
Alice said, highlighting the content of an email.
“Here Tony Swan writes ‘I think I might like Jimi Hendrix’s Axis: Boldas Love, especially track 6, give it a listen, Tell me your review'.
Jimi Hendrix is known as the god of electric guitar in Europe and the United States. Jack didn't quite understand this noisy pop music and asked strangely, "Is there anything wrong with this passage?"
"Of course. "Alice snapped her fingers, and an analyst quickly handed over a thick file, "The sixth song in the album "Axis: Boldas Love" is "Little Wings"
This is it. You found a document related to the national defense project from the office of the director of operations, Marlo Burns. The project name is also called 'Little Wings.'"
She turned the document to the middle. , pointing to a line of underlined amounts and said, "This is the largest single defense project contract signed by 'New Era Technology' so far, with a high of 9 digits and close to 10 digits."
Jack's heart Overjoyed, he quickly took the document and looked through it, but was immediately disappointed because it was just a memorandum and did not specify the specific details of the "Little Wings" project, or even what kind of weapon it was.
However, the memo describes that the project has completed final testing and was presented to a number of key figures in the military and Congress.
Jack's eyes quickly scanned a list of names he didn't recognize, and unexpectedly saw a name he was somewhat familiar with.
“I seem to have heard of this senator”
He was about to say something to Hannah and Jie Jie when the door to the cubicle was suddenly opened and a nervous Jubal appeared. At the door, "Jack, something might have happened to your friends."
An emergency news was being broadcast on the big screen outside. Just now, there was an explosion in a house in a deserted community in Queens. The NYPD Multiple departments have been dispatched urgently, and the number of casualties is currently unknown.
(End of this chapter)