Storm Warning by Allison Brennan

Author:Allison Brennan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Chapter Nine

Early Sunday Evening

FBI Headquarters

Mike Crutcher stepped into the small conference room that they were using to monitor the investigation. “You were wrong, Kincaid.”

Lucy bristled, but before she could speak, Crutcher continued, “All the jewelry stores are now closed, they didn’t hit tonight. We just wasted an entire day when my guess is they are long gone.”

It was nearly dark. She was tired and sore and crabby and wanted to go home. Sean was in the middle of a complex security analysis with the head of the cybercrime unit, and she and Nate had been at desks all day making calls and analyzing information. Kane and Siobhan had arrived at the house an hour ago and were entertaining Jesse, but Lucy wanted to see her family more than sit here to be yelled at and ridiculed by a fellow agent.

“I’m not wrong,” she said. “I’ve looked at the list Cyber Crimes put together, and there are two banks that meet the criteria—both downtown, and both with over a million dollars of assets in their vaults—not to mention whatever is in the safe-deposit boxes. Zach and Cyber Crimes are working on assessing the potential of those targets, and—”

He cut her off. “You mean your husband.”

“I mean Zach,” she snapped. “And Sean, with the permission of Cyber Crimes. Just because they haven’t hit something this big before doesn’t mean this wasn’t always in their plan.”

He looked at her as if she were an idiot. “Out of all the robberies attributed to Trembly’s gang, they have never broken into a vault. Those two banks have the highest level of security, over and above the flawed security software system. And if either of them is the target, the hit won’t be until Tuesday—and we can cover both of them. So go home, relax, and let those of us who have worked white-collar crimes for a few years do our job.”

Nate was getting ready to jump on Crutcher, so Lucy had to do something and stand up for herself. “Agent Crutcher,” she said, “I don’t think you’ve read one word of our reports, but Amanda Trembly worked for the security company who designed the security for those two banks. They called in every one of their techs today to determine whether she might have created the software flaw to begin with—her supervisor said she has the skills to do so. And while there are more than three dozen businesses that still have the flawed software, those are the only two that have a big enough payday that the gang can retire.”

“If that’s their plan—you’re relying on the memory of a scared eight-year-old. We have one of the highest-ranked white-collar units in the FBI. We’ve been doing this a long time, Kincaid.”

“These aren’t traditional white-collar criminals. You need to contact the bank managers and have them do something different—sending in private guards starting now would be a good start.”

“Those two banks you mentioned are completely secure when they’re closed. There’s no way they can get in without every law enforcement agency knowing about it, software flaw notwithstanding.

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