Rogue sent him the list.
When his tablet chimed, he pulled it up. On it, there was a short string of people who they’d tagged as working for the man. It wasn’t the full list, but it was a start.
“I’m just going through it now, to see if I can pinpoint who is the best option. Those four people live in the area where you are and likely helped him.”
He got the information and checked it out.
Yeah, he appreciated that.
“One of them would need to be a poison expert, and one good with explosives. A car bomb, specifically, and a poison called Aconite.”
Rogue made notes.
“I’ll reach out to Remmy to see if any of them specialized in that. Calyx too. We will see if any of the four on the list have done other jobs like that.”
He was grateful.
Gene was also curious.
“How did you find them? Were they that easy to locate?” he asked, knowing that wasn’t the norm.
Maura shared what Rogue had found out.
“Your killer is using an alias, and not a good one. He likely thought he was safe on theDark Web. Spoiler, he’s not. We put out a little money, and the kind of things that were being done, and we got feedback, so to speak. Mercenaries will yap if the money is good. Anyway, we found the four names that he contacted. It’ll be one of them—or in this case, two of them.”
Gene was curious. Something she said piqued his interest. Now, he had to know.
“What name did he use?”
Rogue shared.
“There are four mercenaries that were offered a lot of money by a Slater J Devon,” he stated. “In the shady world,people remember names. It’s like networking for the bad guys. As soon as he showed up on the scene, he was tagged as new—or likely a cop. That raised all kinds of suspicion. There are FBI stings on theDark Weball of the time. All I had to do was ask who the newest player was and offer up some money to get them to tell us who he spoke to. Thus, the list of four.”
He was grateful.
He was also stupefied how the man just switched his names around.
After all of these cryptic clues, had he really just been that oblivious?
Or did he not think Elizabeth would troll the Dark Web to see what was out there?
Boy, had he miscalculated. He must not have intel onThe Hunters.
Thank.
Freaking.
God.
“Yeah, that’s his name, flipped. He’s not that damn smart, or he didn’t think we’d have access to the seedier side of things. Let’s hope he sticks with that jackassery. It might save our bacon.”
Well, from his mouth to the universe’s ears.
The easier they were to catch, the sooner they could head back toNew Orleans.They hadThe BlackStone Groupto take down.
“Elizabeth is known for being a Fed. People will assume she’s not going to go dark side. Only, she’s as dark side as they come when it’s about certain things,” Maura stated.
Yeah, he was aware.
