Knocked Down by Calle J Brookes

Author:Calle J Brookes
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Mystery & Detective, Fiction, Romance, Suspense, FBI, Thriller
Publisher: Lost River Lit Publishing, L.L.C.
Published: 2015-06-02T20:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

He was greeted by three beautiful women. Every man’s fantasy. But the serious expressions concerned him. “What’s this about?”

Agent Brockman was the first to answer. She looked quite a bit different in jeans and sweatshirt than she had that afternoon in a suit. Her partner and Agent Sparks were dressed in similar attire. They were up and ready and he could feel a sense of energy running through the three of them. They knew something, didn’t they? “We were missing the trees for the forest.”

“Ok, can you explain that please?”

“Carrie said it best, and it’s really her theory.”

He turned to Agent Sparks. The green sweatshirt made her look a bit like a Christmas tree but still oh-so alluring. “What?”

“Something of this magnitude, there has to be more to the story out there. And I think Collingsworth is holding back some of that story. Unless he’s spoken with you about it.”

“And what do you think he’s not telling us?”

“Who told him it was terror related? How did they first put the two cases together? The two teams working the cases were from different departments. How did someone see the code and recognize it for what it was? This is a mostly sophisticated bit of code—it wouldn’t be readily apparent that the two cases were related. How did they figure it out? I haven’t found anything to connect. Anything. Where did Collingsworth get his information? Why was he so certain it was related, and terroristic in nature? There is nothing in either of these two cases that shouts connection to me, or to terrorism. In fact, neither of these cases truly meet the parameters of a CCU case when taken alone. So…why did Agent Collingsworth bring us here?”

He’d never heard her speak so quickly, but it was obvious she meant what she had to say. And her words echoed the thoughts he’d had earlier. “Go on.”

“Something of this magnitude—this can’t be the first time they’ve done this.”

“You think more than one.” It wasn’t a question. As he said it, it made sense to him. He’d considered early on that there may have been others involved, but they’d focused so closely on the hacking angle that maybe Agent Brockman had been correct? Maybe they had missed the trees for the forest.

Maybe they shouldn’t have focused so closely on the how and focused on the who instead? Maybe he’d used Sparks’ obvious hacking skills as a blinder? Maybe the case’s hacking aspect was just a byproduct? Maybe he should have considered that when you had more than one person involved, there would be more than one way to track them?

Agent Sparks was staring at him out of eyes not hidden behind dark glasses for once. She had the most captivating eyes he’d ever seen. This woman was lethal, wasn’t she? “Yes…Yes. I think there would have to be more than one person. One could have done the hacking, but not at so large a scale. Someone would have to learn the basics about the targets just to get started.

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