Page 70 of Broken Oath

Advanced targeting hardware.

Weapons listed as agricultural machinery.

Rook felt anger stir beneath his ribs.

Cold.

Controlled.

Useful.

Fathom brought up a series of bank transfers.

Money had moved from the shipping corporation into shell companies. From the shell companies into foreign accounts. From those accounts into investment funds connected to powerful people.

“Vance?” Rook asked.

“Two accounts might connect to him.”

“Might?”

“I don’t guess.”

Sniper looked at him. “You do it constantly.”

“I form highly informed theories.”

“You guess with confidence.”

Fathom ignored him.

“The money also passes through companies connected to Rear Admiral Grayson and Director Madow. But the accounts are heavily layered. Some of the connections may have been planted to point investigators in the wrong direction.”

Rook studied the seven names.

“We don’t decide anyone is guilty until we prove it.”

“Even Sheffield?” Sniper asked.

“Even Sheffield.”

The general had ended the search.

He had signed the false report.

That made him suspicious.

It didn’t make him guilty.

Rook had already lost six men because someone had manipulated intelligence. He wasn’t going to build their investigation on assumptions.

“What about Mac Stenson?”

Fathom opened his file.

“Career intelligence officer. Thirty-two years of service. Clean record. No unexplained income. No suspicious travel. No known connection to the shipping companies.”

“Then why is he on the list?”