Chapter 961 The Truth Revealed
When Jack and Reacher returned to New York, Hannah and Jiejie had already brought Marlo Burns and her daughter back to the small office building of the Most Wanted Criminal Team.
The mother and daughter did not run too far and hid in Newburgh, upstream of the Hudson River, more than 70 kilometers north of New York.
Langston and his men don't seem to have that much magical power. They only rely on some relationships left behind within the NYPD.
Now under the intervention of Frank Regan, the director, not to mention Marlo Burns and her daughter who threw away their mobile phones and ran away, even those who wanted to find Reacher and his The whereabouts of members of the Special Investigation Unit are difficult to come by.
The reason why Jack suggested protecting the families of the members of the Special Investigation Team was not because he was worried about Langston's gang jumping over the wall, but because he was guarding against the evil hands of a certain congressman.
"So, you are indeed not from Langston's group?" Jack pushed the coffee cup in front of the frightened middle-aged woman.
"Of course not. When he handed me a large bag of money, I knew that I could no longer stay at home. I had to protect my daughter."
Marlo ·Burns looks very bad. European and American women's skin is basically unsightly after the age of 40. She obviously didn't bother to take care of herself when she was running away. She looked completely different from her appearance in the photo. .
"So the cash in your house was actually forced upon you by Langston, but you could have refused and called the police." Dixon held a cup of passion fruit tea and gently smelled the aroma.
She found that the large refrigerator in Jack's kitchen was a treasure. He could easily take out a glass jar from it and make some drinks that the girls would love to drink.
Marlo Burns was immediately off guard by her light words, and tears began to well up in her eyes.
"Langston is a former police officer. He has been a police inspector in the NYPD for more than 20 years. He has helped many immoral guys escape from prison. Those people are now used by him, such as a very vicious The professional killer and his men."
The special investigators looked at each other, and Reacher said calmly, "We killed him in Atlantic City."
Marlo Byrne. Si was slightly startled and continued, "Some professional gunmen."
"Only two survived in Greenwood Cemetery, and they are being protected in a hospital in New Jersey." Danny continued.
"There is also a whole motorcycle gang." The woman choked again.
“I don’t know how many of them will survive, but federal prison will be their future destination.” Jubal followed with a smile.
“But I am only one person, and the things he threatened to do to me and my daughter. God, I can’t even repeat it again, so I ran away in fear.”
< br>Excitement and fear made Marlo Burns tremble all over, crying with snot and tears.
"OK, but you are safe now. We have the FBI here, righteous NYPD detectives, and a group of ex-soldiers who want Langston's blood."
Jack handed over a whole pack of wet wipes He handed it to her and comforted her, "Let's talk about Tony Swan first. What role did he play in this? Langston's accomplice? Or..."
Marlo Burns was thanking Jack in a low voice. , his eyes widened in surprise when he heard this question.
"Of course not, he is the one who is trying to stop everything. If you know Swann, you will know that he will never be involved in such a despicable business."
" Yes, some of us have always believed that." Reacher glared at his teammates, and several special investigators avoided his gaze in embarrassment.
"We know that it was you who placed Swann into the security department of the 'New Era'. Can you tell us why?" Jack continued to guide.
“Yeah, that’s right, that was over a year ago, I hired Swann and made him his deputy because the ‘new era’ security team was pretty much monolithic. They are all former NYPD police officers and come from the same jurisdiction. Almost everyone obeys Langston's orders."
Hanna looked slightly satisfied when she heard what she said. She made a V sign to Jie Jie, which was very similar to the analysis she made when the three of them searched Marlo Burns' house.
“So you think that the security department cannot be kept out of the company’s control, and you arranged for Swan to enter the security department to investigate privately, and then discovered something was wrong with the ‘Little Wings’ project?”
Jie Jie's question surprised Marlo Burns, "How do you know?"
"We know about the 'Little Wings' project, those portable air defense missiles, and even Congressman Lavoie. "
Jack said, spreading the strange data printed out from Franz's USB drive in front of her, "Do you know what these numbers mean?"
"Of course." The woman recognized it just by looking at it, "These are the statistics of defective missile chips. Swan found that in the chip testing process equipped with the 'Little Wings' software, the number of chips with quality problems exceeded the normal range, especially In the past few months.
I asked the quality control department and they couldn't figure out the reason, but the CEO and the board of directors told me not to care about these details, as long as I can complete this batch of orders on time, nothing else. Important.
Since the missile performed very well in the actual test, we attributed it to processing problems rather than design flaws. We just increased the number of chip purchases in order to select enough qualified products. "
"Of course, because these missiles are just fake, and they can be fooled. Reacher said coldly.
Marlo Burns was so surprised that she was speechless for a moment. Obviously, as an operations director, she knew something fishy about the "Little Wings" project.< br>
"Going on, so what's Swann's take? " Reacher asked.
"Swan believed that someone in the engineering department deliberately manipulated the engineering test board and randomly marked some normally functioning chips as defective products. ”
Marlo Burns held her head and cried again, "I tried my best and I reported these problems to the top, but no one cared. For the board of directors, they were more concerned about the R&D team and subsequent defense contracts. .
I told Swann to be careful, and he reassured me that he would find a few colleagues he trusted in the army to help, and then we lost contact.”
"Yes." O'Donnell, who had been listening, wiped the corners of his eyes, looking depressed and depressed, "They are also our friends."
Niggly put his hand on his shoulder and shook it vigorously to comfort him. , "We will avenge them."
With the last piece of the puzzle provided by Marlo Burns, the whole thing is basically revealed.
"New Era Technology" has created "Little Wings", a promising military software, or so they think.
In order to allow this project to have sufficient financial support to continue, they specially designed a portable air defense missile that looks functional.
As a new defense company that has just entered the industry, "New Era Technology" obviously does not have the ability to compete with those established companies in other important military projects.
So I decided to take a different approach and come up with such an eye-catching "black technology" job.
Perhaps the effect of the demonstration was a little too much. I don’t know which small country or force took a fancy to this "black technology" individual air defense missile, which caused the following series of troubles.
(End of this chapter)