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Chapter 333: Graf Breaks
The police helicopter set them down on a hospital helipad on the edge of Zurich at ten-forty, and by ten fifty-five, Ethan was sitting in the back of an unmarked BMW across the street from the private bank where Lorenz Graf kept his money.Albrecht sat in the front passenger seat with a radio earpiece in one ear, and Hoffmann sat beside Ethan, chewing her thumbnail. Two Swiss federal officers waited in a second car farther down the block. The Bahnhofstrasse was busy with shoppers and tourists, people carrying bags from Cartier and Chanel and pausing in front of the window displays, and nobody paid any attention to the gray sedan parked by the tram stop."There," Albrecht said quietly.Graf came around the corner on foot, walking fast. He wore the same charcoal overcoat Ethan had seen in the photograph from Salzburg, and he carried a slim leather briefcase in one hand. His silver hair was uncombed, and even from across the street, Ethan could see that his face was gray with exhaustion.
Chapter 333: Graf Breaks
The police helicopter set them down on a hospital helipad on the edge of Zurich at ten-forty, and by ten fifty-five, Ethan was sitting in the back of an unmarked BMW across the street from the private bank where Lorenz Graf kept his money.Albrecht sat in the front passenger seat with a radio earpiece in one ear, and Hoffmann sat beside Ethan, chewing her thumbnail. Two Swiss federal officers waited in a second car farther down the block. The Bahnhofstrasse was busy with shoppers and tourists, people carrying bags from Cartier and Chanel and pausing in front of the window displays, and nobody paid any attention to the gray sedan parked by the tram stop."There," Albrecht said quietly.Graf came around the corner on foot, walking fast. He wore the same charcoal overcoat Ethan had seen in the photograph from Salzburg, and he carried a slim leather briefcase in one hand. His silver hair was uncombed, and even from across the street, Ethan could see that his face was gray with exhaustion.
Chapter 332: Mother and Son
The photograph arrived on Ethan's phone at six in the morning, Frankfurt time, and he looked at it for a full minute before he could make himself breathe.He had known Victoria Cross for almost thirty years. She had married his father when Ethan was four years old, after his real mother walked away, and she had never once pretended to love him. She'd been cold at birthdays and colder at funerals, and when Richard died, she had stood at the graveside in black pearls without shedding a single tear. Ethan had always assumed she simply hated him for being another woman's son.He'd never imagined she had a son of her own.His phone rang before he could put it down. It was Seraphina."I'm in Geneva," she said, without saying hello. "I took the first train this morning. Marcus said the Swiss records were sealed, but sealed records still exist on paper somewhere, and I know someone at the civil registry office who owes me a favor.""Sera, you didn't have to...""Yes, I did." Her voice was tir
Chapter 331: Montauk
The wind off the Atlantic was strong enough to rock the van as it rolled to a stop at the bottom of the hill, half a mile short of the house with the widow's walk.Adrian Volkov sat in the passenger seat with a thermal scope in his lap and a cigarette he hadn't lit between his teeth. He was a big man, broad through the chest and shoulders, with close-cropped blond hair and pale gray eyes that gave away nothing at all. He had spent Six years running the Volkov family's business in New York, and in that time he had learned that most problems could be solved with money, a few with fear, and the rest with a bullet. He had a feeling tonight was going to need all three.In the back of the van, six of his men checked their weapons in the glow of a red interior light. Fredrick Vance sat among them in a borrowed tactical vest, his face grim, a pistol resting on his knee."Two heat signatures on the ground floor," Volkov said, lowering the scope. "Both adult. Both moving. One near the kitchen,
Chapter 330: The Woman in Cell Block C
It took Hoffmann six hours, two favors, and a very expensive phone call to arrange a video visit with Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, and at four o'clock that afternoon, Frankfurt time, Ethan sat in front of a laptop in a borrowed office and watched his ex-wife walk into frame.Claire had always known how to enter a room. Even here, even now, she did it well. She sat down in the plastic chair on the other side of the screen with her chin up and her shoulders back, as if she were arriving at a gala rather than a prison visiting room. The orange jumpsuit should have made her look small, but it couldn't hide the long legs or the slim waist or the full breasts that had once turned every head on Fifth Avenue. Her hair was pulled back in a plain ponytail now, and there were lines around her eyes that hadn't been there a year ago, but her face was still the face he had fallen in love with, and for a second, it hurt to look at her."Ethan," she said, with a small, crooked smile. "You loo
Chapter 329: Ask Him About Miami
Ethan sat on the edge of the hotel bed in Frankfurt with the curtains open and the gray morning light coming in over the river, and he told his wife the story he had never told anyone."It was five years ago," he said. "Before I met you. Back when I still had the system."On the other end of the line, Chloe said nothing, but he heard her settle into a chair, and he knew she was listening."You remember how it worked. It would give me tasks, and when I finished them, it paid me. Some of them were small. Some of them were huge. That spring it gave me one that came with a ten million dollar reward, which was more than it had ever offered me." He rubbed his eyes. "The task said: Expose Kessler Capital before it collapses. Protect the investors.""Kessler," Chloe repeated."Lucas Kessler ran a hedge fund out of Miami. On paper, it was the best-performing fund in Florida. In reality, it was a Ponzi scheme, and almost all the money in it came from retirees. Teachers, nurses, firefighters. Th
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