Chapter 950 Little Wings

Danny brought a group of NYPD to clean up the mess. Fortunately, this is a cemetery. Apart from the relatives who came to attend Franz's funeral, there were also the army soldiers in the honor guard. It was not difficult to block the news.

Originally, Jack planned to arrange for Franz's wife and son to go to Los Angeles for temporary shelter after the funeral, but Chief Reagan, who was a little embarrassed, firmly opposed it. Now the protection mission 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 just so-so. After all, the scale of the largest police department in the United States is too large, and the good and bad are mixed, which leads to endless problems.

However, considering that the NYPD Internal Affairs Department has just experienced a round of cleansing, and it was arranged by Chief Reagan himself, he didn't say anything more.

Danny was responsible for sending the injured to the hospital and ensuring that the news would be blocked for a while, because Reacher and others planned to follow the gunman to the place in Queens to deliver the final payment.

Jack removed his disguise and took Jiejie and Hannah back to the Federal Building. Clay and Aubrey were sent to Colorado by Jubal early this morning. They were going to investigate the factory of "New Age Technology" in Denver and find out why "AM" appeared there.

Alice and a dozen analysts were busy in the operations center. There was too much information that Reacher and his team "looted" last night. There were dozens of hard drives pulled out from the server in the computer room alone, and there were also a lot of paper folders.

If you want to sort out all this information in a short time, you can only pile up manpower. Jubal made a temporary isolation of the large office of the operations center, and the last third was allocated to them. From time to time, someone came in and out with thick information.

Jack put two heavy bags on the table, which contained 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 see it at all.

"There are some, but not much. Most of the information is consistent with what you have already found out and can be verified, such as the situation of the security department of 'New Age Technology'.

Shane Lanston and his men from the NYPD Third Precinct occupy almost all the key positions, except for the deputy director."

Alice slapped a list in front of Jack without looking up. He had seen a similar list before, which listed all the personnel with positions in the security department of "New Age Technology".

She also carefully compared this list with the list of black police provided by Director Reagan. Almost all the names on it were circled, except for one person.

"Yes, except for Deputy Director Tony Swan, we were attacked while attending the funeral. The murderer confessed that he was hired by Swan, but this is obviously a frame-up. I suspect that the real mastermind is Shane Langston."

"You were attacked?" Alice looked up in surprise and found the Band-Aid on Hannah's face. "Honey, are you okay?"

Hannah, who was wearing the Band-Aid, seemed to be full of energy. She pointed at Jack with a smile, "It's just a little skin breakage. Some people are more seriously hurt. Jack's Hellcat was smashed."

"But it protected the two of you, so even if it costs the money for a new car, I will find a way to fix it." This is the Federal Building, and Jack can't do anything intimate. He can only whisper some sweet words.

This is the difference between having a guilty conscience and having no guilty conscience. When he was in BAU, he and the fat girl Garcia and Emily often flirted with each other. Now he has to pretend to be a gentleman in New York.

This made Hannah and Jiejie smile sweetly, and Alice, who had been fed a mouthful of dog food, felt very sick. She shuddered and got down to business.

"I was very surprised that Tony Swan, who was a private detective a year ago, suddenly joined a large company and became the deputy director of the security department. It was obvious that his background was somewhat incompatible with those black policemen.

So I carefully studied his corporate email, hoping to find some clues."

"Then?" Jack knew from her expression that she 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 Swan's emails are copied to his superior Lanston and several other security supervisors by default."

"It makes sense. They are a team and naturally need to share information. Is there anything strange about this?" Jiejie was a little puzzled.

Alice closed the emails and clicked on another one. "Those emails are not strange, so the remaining ones are very interesting.

Swan had several emails with Marlo Burns, the director of operations, without copying anyone, although the content did not seem to involve any official business at first glance."

Jack frowned and read the contents of those emails. They were all some small talk about music. He didn't understand why Alice paid special attention to these emails.

"Is there anything special about this Marlo Burns?" The director of operations is usually the vice president level of a company, a senior management level, second only to the CEO.

But the security department of a defense company like "New Era Technology" is relatively independent. It seems reasonable that Swan, the deputy director of the security department, has some 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 think, "Is it possible that Swann was actually this Marlo Burns who was inserted into the security department? The purpose is to do some Private investigation?"

"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 corporate emails monitored by the company to send ambiguous emails, unless they feel that using mobile phones is inappropriate. Safety."

Alice said, underlining the content of an email.

"Here Tony Swan writes 'I think I might like Jimi Hendrix's 'Axis: Bold as Love', especially track 6, give it a listen and tell me yours evaluate'."

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 curiously, “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: Bold as Love" is "Little Wings".

This is a document you found in the office of the Director of Operations, Marlo Burns, related to a national defense project. The project name is also called 'Little Wings'. "

She flipped the document to the middle, pointed to a line of underlined amounts and said, "This is the largest single defense project contract signed by New Era Technology to date, with a nine-digit figure and close to 10-digit amount."

Jack was overjoyed and quickly took the document and read 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 think I've heard of this senator"

Just as he was about to say something to Hannah and Jiejie, the compartment door 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, a house exploded in a deserted community in Queens. Multiple NYPD departments have been dispatched. The number of casualties is currently unknown.