midnight in death by j.d. robb

Author:j.d. robb
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: eve dallas
ISBN: 9780425208816
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1998-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

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M I D N I G H T I N D E A T H

55

Sleep helped. She’d dropped into it like a stone and had

lain on the bottom of the dreaming pool for six hours.

There’d been no call in the middle of the night to tell her

Carl Neissan’s body had been found.

Another day, she thought again and strode into her office.

Roarke was at her desk, busily screening data.

‘‘What are you doing?’’ She all but leapt to him. ‘‘That’s

classified.’’

‘‘Don’t pick nits, darling. You were going too broad last

night. You’ll be days compiling and rejecting all accounts

under the name Palmer. You want one that shows consid-

erable activity, large transfers, and connections to other ac-

counts—which is, of course, the trickier part if you’re

dealing with someone who understands how to hide the

coin.’’

‘‘You can’t just sit down and start going through data

accumulated in an investigation.’’

‘‘Of course I can. You need coffee.’’ He looked up

briefly. ‘‘Then you’ll feel more yourself and I’ll show you

what I have.’’

‘‘I feel exactly like myself.’’ Which, she admitted, at the

moment was annoyed and edgy. She stalked to the

AutoChef in the kitchen, went for an oversized mug of hot

and black. The rich and real caffeine Roarke could com-

mand zipped straight through her system.

‘‘What have you got?’’ she demanded when she walked

back in.

‘‘Palmer was too simple, too obvious,’’ Roarke began,

and she narrowed her eyes.

‘‘You didn’t think so yesterday.’’

‘‘I said check for relatives, same names. I should have

suggested you try his mother’s maiden name. Riley. And

here we have the account of one Palmer Riley. It was

opened six years ago, standard brokerage account, man-

aged. Since there’s been some activity over the last six

months, I would assume your man found a way to access

a ’link or computer from prison.’’

‘‘He shouldn’t have been near one. How can you be

sure?’’

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‘‘He understands how money works, and just how fluid

it can be. You see here that six months ago he had a balance

of just over $1.3 million. For the past three years previous,

all action was automatic, straight managed with no input

from the account holder. But here he begins to make trans-

fers. Here’s one to an account under Peter Nolan, which,

by the way, is his aunt’s husband’s name on his father’s

side. Overseas accounts, off-planet accounts, local New

York accounts—different names, different IDs. He’s had

this money for some time and he waited, sat on it until he

found the way to use it.’’

‘‘When I took him down before, we froze his accounts,

accounts under David Palmer. We didn’t look deeper. I

didn’t think of it.’’

‘‘Why should you have? You stopped him, you put him

away. He was meant to stay away.’’

‘‘If I’d cleared it all, he wouldn’t have had the backing

to come back here.’’

‘‘Eve, he’d have found a way.’’ He waited until she

looked at him. ‘‘You know that.’’

‘‘Yeah.’’ She let out a long breath. ‘‘Yeah, I know that.

This tells me he’s been planning, he’s been shopping, he’s

been juggling funds, funneling into cover accounts. I need

to freeze them. I don’t think a judge is going to argue with

me, not after what happened to one of their own.

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