Wild Justice: A Nadia Stafford Novel by Kelley Armstrong

Author:Kelley Armstrong [Armstrong, Kelley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2013-11-25T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 29

Quinn had woken to a message from the company that owned the vehicle Aldrich’s killer had driven. The car had been rented on a corporate card at the Cleveland airport. The company provided everything they could, thinking they were helping the U.S. Marshal Service.

Speaking of Quinn’s real-world career, as I said, getting away from it wasn’t easy. Although he was technically on personal leave, he still had paperwork—e-mail, reports, and such. While he phoned with the news about the car right away, he didn’t rush up to our room, instead tending to some urgent business while I read the journal and talked to Jack.

An hour later, when Quinn came up, he had coffee for all of us. Evelyn arrived moments later. She didn’t get a “good morning” from the guys. She pretended not to notice, just walked to the armchair and waited patiently . . . for about five seconds.

“Well?” she said. “Where are we?”

I told Evelyn about the car rental lead. “The company is a dead end so far. The Internet highway is nothing but roadblocks. The company name is IPP Incorporated.”

“A shell company,” Quinn said. “That was my guess.”

I nodded. “I don’t have a lot of experience with things like that, but Quinn says a very generic name combined with no easily accessible information suggests a shell company, which doesn’t help us out at all.”

“I’ll dig some more,” Quinn said. “See if I can find it through other sources.”

“Evelyn will, too,” Jack said.

“Will I?” she said.

“Up to you. Don’t feel like helping?” He pointed at the door.

“Of course, I’d be happy to check my sources,” Evelyn said. “I would just prefer to be asked.”

Jack looked as if he wanted to say something to that, but he brought his coffee over to me instead and we returned to the journal.

As we worked on that, Quinn and Evelyn did research. Quinn’s online resources are law-enforcement based; Evelyn’s are criminal. The Internet has its share of side roads into the underworld, usually disguised and tightly guarded. Evelyn knew her way into all of them. When she searched for IPP, Inc., though, she ran into a problem: someone, somewhere really didn’t like people looking for that information.

The search triggered a computer worm, which set off an alert. She tried another search result link and got the same thing. So did a third.

“This is interesting,” she murmured.

“I think the word you want is scary,” I said. “That’s some serious tech power.”

“Which makes it interesting.” She shut down her computer and reached for her phone. “It seems I’ll need to do this the old-fashioned way.”

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