The Sky Thieves (Spider Heist Thrillers Book 2) by Jason Kasper

The Sky Thieves (Spider Heist Thrillers Book 2) by Jason Kasper

Author:Jason Kasper [Kasper, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regiment Publishing
Published: 2020-07-22T16:00:00+00:00


39

Jim

Jim sat in his office well past ten p.m., poring over the case files assigned to his task force over the past few years.

He wasn’t sure what he was looking for, only knew the familiar nagging sensation that he was missing some key connection in Sterling’s case. It felt like there was a break in the circuity of his brain, a disquieting feeling of an idiosyncrasy among the mountains of data that Jim had analyzed. It gnawed away at his peace of mind, made him restless with impatience.

Jim knew better than to leave work at times like these. He’d tried that in the past, tried to force himself to go home for dinner with his wife and put aside the thought until the next day. It never worked. He’d be snappy and irritable with his wife, who’d then resent him for being obsessed with work. Then sleep would be impossible; he’d toss and turn, thoughts racing, wondering what that missing piece of information was and why he hadn’t spotted it yet. No answers occurred to him in the gray space of his bedroom at night, only racing thoughts that left him sleepless and wiped out the next day at work.

He wasn’t sure what troubled him now. Granted, the vehicle idea had been a dead end— Sterling did have a privately registered vehicle, a 2006 manual transmission BMW M3 that had reportedly been in near-showroom condition. But his daily commute veered far from roads with traffic cameras, drifting instead through areas replete with parking garages and vehicle storage facilities, many of which lacked even basic video surveillance. His people were continuing to investigate, but Jim knew in his gut that following the vehicle’s historical driving patterns wouldn’t reveal the location of his hideout.

That wasn’t what bothered Jim, though. If that kind of minor setback cost him his sleep, he’d have become a raging insomniac decades ago.

Instead he found his thoughts drifting to Blair’s time on the task force, and in particular her somewhat naive theory that a single heist crew was behind the most sophisticated of the robberies they investigated.

Jim and the rest of the task force knew that to be patently false on a couple counts—there was too much variation in the MO of the top jobs, and no one crew could have that much success without getting caught. These criminals weren’t superhuman, and any string of robberies high profile enough to warrant the assembly of a federal task force was not the work of a single crew. The obvious answer was a network of dozens of thieves, mobilized into smaller teams and sent to jobs with the assistance of masterminds who gave the orders and took their cut of the proceeds.

That type of thing sounded like a bad Hollywood plot, but it wasn’t. Most notably, Interpol had long been chasing a nebulous organization known as the Pink Panthers—a network of several hundred thieves from the Balkans who had collectively perpetrated over a hundred international robberies worth five hundred million dollars and counting.



Download



Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.