Holding the Line by Kierney Scott

Author:Kierney Scott [Scott, Kierney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781474032773
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Ooh, I got you!” Beth scribbled down the name in a notebook. Later she would transfer the information to the appropriate section in her trusted purple binder. She would have put the information in the slimy- son-of-a-bitch section, if she had one. She might just need to make one for him but later because right now she was too busy giving the universe a big high five.

Finally!

She hadn’t found El Escorpion, or El Capitan, or whatever he was calling himself but she had found his money man, which was almost as good. Every night she went home with a headache from staring at a computer screen, was worth it. She had his name. The break came with something she found in Biel Montoya’s bank records. Montoya still claimed to know nothing that could lead them to El Escorpion, even now as he faced a lifetime in a federal prison. But his bank statements told a different story.

Initially nothing stood out, everything looked above board, no wires from foreign banks, no large sums of money from anywhere, actually. She thought Gonzales had played her. But then after seventeen M&Ms’ worth of therapy, realization hit her upside the head: there were no major outgoing sums either, no car payment, no mortgage, no credit card bills.

Montoya lived in a six-bedroom beachfront condo in San Diego; she would expect him to be paying thousands a month in rent, he paid less than a hundred. After a quick search, she discovered the owner of the property was a global letting company based in Zurich, registered to a Bashar Zayat.

Zayat’s investment portfolio made for fascinating reading. This was her guy. Finally!

“I’m coming to get you. You’ve had a damn good run. But it’s over. You’re mine now.”

Things were finally falling into place. Zayat was good. If she were going to dabble in arms dealing and needed someone to launder the money, she would definitely go with this guy. The layering of his transactions was so convoluted, by the time the money was integrated it looked squeaky clean. He used hundreds of aliases, channeling money through just as many businesses in North America and Europe, mostly gambling, and tanning salons and the occasional carpet shop of all things.

The most impressive part was he never lost more than seven percent during the layering stage. Most criminals could expect to lose at least three times the amount. He was good. When she met him, she would tell him. Credit where credit was due…

Now she just needed to know how she was going to play it. Anyone as good as Zayat would not be broken down with tales of prison politics and gang rape. She needed leverage and family was key, everybody had one, either related or by choice, people they would do anything to protect. The suspects she interviewed were no different than her that way. They were alike in other ways too. She had no qualms about using their family against them, and they would do the same to her.

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