36 Righteous: A Serial Killer's Hit List (The Torah Codes Book 2) by Ezra Barany

Author:Ezra Barany [Barany, Ezra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: k'12
Publisher: Dafkah Books
Published: 2014-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 73

Lieutenant General Richard Stone hung up the phone and immediately picked it back up.

“Get me a trace on this number.” He read off the number of the last call made to his phone. “Check on all calls made from that number in the last two days.”

Before Richard could return to his stack of papers to process, someone knocked at his office door.

“Come in.”

Richard sniffed. The stocky, gray-haired employee had a flatulent air about him. “Sir, someone called the check-in line as if it were a caterer.”

That presented a problem. If someone called the caterer line, it meant the calling card had fallen into the wrong hands. The caterer number was a direct line to Special Project HQ.

“Any idea where the call originated?”

“1801 Harrison Street, Oakland, California. Twelfth floor. Ira Hughes’s desk. He doesn’t answer his cell phone, and we can’t get a fix on his position. His phone must be off or busted.”

Richard tapped his pen against the desk. None of Ira’s behavior indicated that he planned on going rogue. He must have been either locked up or dead. If he was dead, then who killed him and made the call?

Richard’s phone rang. He answered, waving the smelly employee to go away.

“Sir, the number you asked us to trace is from a Berkeley motel, and there was only one other call made from that line in the past two days.”

“To where?”

“It was made to one Delilah Patai in New Jersey.”

Richard recited the name a few times. Where did he hear that name before? Patai.

He knew where. Patai. Sophia Patai was still alive.

“Thank you.” He hung up the phone.

If Ira was out of the picture, the time called for a much more talented assassin. Richard knew just the man. Eric Redding. Redding may not have been a member of the Order—and it was risky to hire outside the Order—but he always got the job done.

Richard phoned his secretary. “Send out an alert to Eric Redding. He may take a few hours to get back to us. When he calls in, transfer him over to me.”

“Yes, sir.”

A few minutes later, another employee knocked and entered his office.

The employee spoke too slowly for Richard’s tastes. “You said to let you know if anyone did a search for your name.”

Richard waited for the employee to finish, but he took too long. “And?”

“A Detective Bobbie Graff has searched the internet, the criminal database, and the military database for your name.”

“Any other searches?”

“Yes, she did a combined internet search for both your name and a ‘Yoseph Schwartz.’ ”

Richard nodded. She wasn’t backing down. “Get me a list of her family members, known associates, and their addresses. Now.”

“Yes, sir.”

Alone again in his office, Richard called his ex. “I’m sorry, Elizabeth. I’m going to be busy tonight.”

“Holly’s turning eighteen. You promised her you’d come over for her birthday party. You know what? Never mind. I’ll tell her you had another emergency at work.”

“Thanks, Elizabeth.”

“For some reason, she still loves you with all her heart. I don’t know how she puts up with your broken promises.

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