levels, John. I mean, she meets with the Joint Chiefs. She goes to the Oval

Office. I’ve heard her lecture. She’s brilliant. Beyond brilliant.

Once-in-a-generation intellect.” “She’s also a monster, Bobby.” “How so?” “Are

you sure there’s no one monitoring this?” “I’ve bounced this signal off so many

pieces of sky hardware and encrypted it to such an insane degree that I’m

surprised we can even understand each other.” “Okay.” Puller took five minutes

to tell him about Paul. When he was done his brother was silent for so long that

Puller was afraid someone had intercepted the call and taken his brother away.

“John, this is not good.” “Tell me something I don’t know. The thing is the

women that were killed? I think they all helped build Paul. And this last

victim, Audrey Moore, I’m sure will have the same sort of connection.” “So he

killed them in retaliation?” “I’m sure he would have loved to kill Jericho, but

he probably couldn’t get to her. The five women were the next best thing.”

“Jesus,” said Robert. “Talk about guilt by association.” “Bobby, if this Jericho

is such a rock star, how come Knox and I have never heard of her?” “She wants it

that way. Even when she comes out and speaks it’s only to a select few. No

publicity at all. She’s always in the background. She has people run the

companies she ostensibly works for.” “Like Chris Ballard thirty years ago and

Josh Quentin with Atalanta Group now?” “I know about Ballard, and I know a

little about Atalanta Group. I don’t know Quentin.” “Well, Quentin is passing

government secrets to a bar owner in Hampton. And she’s passing them on to some

French-speaking guy in Williamsburg.” “What?” exclaimed Robert. “Do you have

proof?” “I have pictures. I can send them to you. Maybe you can run this French

guy down. Knox was going to try, but you might have a better shot.” “What sort

of government secrets?” “I’ll send you the screen shots I took. Knox says it