Chapter 961 The truth is revealed

When Jack and Rachel returned to New York, Hannah and Jie Jie had brought Marlo Burns and her daughter back to the small office building of the Most Wanted Criminals 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 just rely on some relationships left behind within the NYPD.

Now under the intervention of Director Frank Regan, not to mention Marlo Burns and her daughter who threw away their mobile phones and ran away, even those who wanted to find the whereabouts of Reacher and his members of the Special Investigation Team It's all very difficult.

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 I couldn't stay at home anymore. I had to protect my daughter."

Marlowe Burns looks very bad. European and American women's skin is basically unsightly after the age of 40. She obviously didn't have the time to do any maintenance when she was running away. At this time, she looked at the same person as in her photo. The appearance is very different.

"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 superintendent in the NYPD for more than 20 years. He has helped many unscrupulous guys escape from prison. Those people are now used by him, such as a vicious professional killer and his men. ”

Several special investigators looked at each other, and Reacher said calmly, "We killed him in Atlantic City."

Marlo Burns 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 will survive, but federal prison will be their future destination." Jubal added with a smile.

"But I'm only one person, and the things he threatened to do to me and my daughter, God, I can't even recount them again, so I ran away in fear."

Marlo Burns was shaking with excitement and fear, and she was 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 to pay for his blood."

Jack handed her a whole pack of wet wipes 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 quietly, and her eyes widened in surprise at the question.

"Of course not. He was the one who tried to stop everything. If you know Swann, you will know that he would never be involved in such a despicable business."

"Yes, some of us have always believed so." Reacher glared at his teammates, and several special investigators avoided his gaze in embarrassment.

"We know that it was you who arranged 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, and I hired Swann and put him as Langston's deputy because the 'new era' safety team was pretty much monolithic.

They were all former NYPD cops and from the same jurisdiction, and almost all of them obeyed Langston's orders. "

Hearing what she said, Hannah made a V sign to Jie Jie with a little satisfaction. This was almost the same as the analysis she made when the three of them searched Marlo Burns' house.

"So you think you can't keep the security department out of the company's control, and arrange for Swan to enter the security department to investigate privately, and then discover something is wrong with the 'Little Wings' project?"

Marlo Burns was a little surprised by Jie Jie's question, "How do you know?"

"We know about the Little Wings program, we know about those man-portable air defense missiles, and even Congressman Lavoie."

Jack said, spreading the strange data printed out from Franz's USB flash 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 number." category, especially in recent 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 matters.

Since the missile performed very well in the actual test, we attributed it to processing problems rather than design flaws. We only increased the number of chip purchases in order to select enough qualified products. "

"Of course, because these missiles are just fake. It's enough to fool them." Lei Che said coldly.

Marlo Burns was so surprised that she was speechless. Obviously, as an operations director, she knew something about the "Little Wings" project.

"Go on, so what is Swan's opinion?" Reacher asked.

"Swan believes that someone in the engineering department deliberately manipulated the engineering test board and randomly marked some normally functioning chips as defective products."

Marlo Burns hugged her head and cried again, "I tried my best. I reported these problems to the higher authorities, but no one cared. For the board of directors, they are more concerned about the R\u0026D team and subsequent defense contracts.

I told Swan to be careful, and he assured me that he would find a few colleagues he trusted in the army to help, and then we lost contact."

"Yeah." O'Donnell, who had been listening, wiped his eyes and looked depressed and frustrated, "They are also our friends."

Negley put his hand on his shoulder and shook it hard to comfort him, "We will avenge them."

With the last piece of the puzzle provided by Marlo Burns, the whole thing was basically revealed.

"New Era Technology" has come up with "Little Wings", a promising military software, at least they think so.

In order to allow this project to have sufficient financial support to continue, they specially designed a portable air defense missile for it that looks useful.

As a new defense company, "New Era Technology" obviously does not have the ability to compete with those old companies in other important military projects.

So they simply took a different approach and came up with such an eye-catching "black technology" work.

Perhaps the demonstration effect was a bit too much, and this "black technology" individual air defense missile was not known to be favored by some small country or force, which led to a series of troubles later.