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She gasped.
“Our office here has been destroyed. Everything’s gone.”
Zhang Daiyu took a moment to absorb the news.
“Was anyone hurt?” she asked at last.
“I don’t think so,” I replied. “I managed to evacuate the building in time.”
My phone rang and I saw Justine’s name flash on-screen. “I need to take this,” I told Zhang Daiyu.
“Searches of the other offices haven’t revealed anything,” Justine said as soon as I answered.
“That’s a relief. But we still need everyone to be on high alert,” I said. “Enhanced security across the board until we find out who is behind this and why they’ve targeted us. We don’t know what their next move might be.”
“We’re on it,” she replied. “Jack, please be careful. I want you to come back to me in one piece.”
“I will,” I assured her before hanging up.
Zhang Daiyu was busy on her phone sending texts.
“Most of the team already know about the office,” she remarked without looking up. “The authorities want us to come in for questioning.”
“How do you feel about that?” I asked.
“I think this would be a bad time to start trusting strangers.”
“I agree.”
“Do the other offices know?” she asked.
I could tell something was on her mind.
“Yes. I spoke to Justine last night and told her to alert everyone.”
“What were you doing at the office?” Zhang Daiyu asked, giving voice to what was troubling her.
I felt that I’d betrayed her by going looking for evidence she was somehow involved in whatever was going on. The attack onthe New York office proved my initial suspicions were unfounded; it was Private that was being targeted rather than her.
“I had some things I wanted to check out.”
“Okay,” she said. “Do you have any thoughts on why we’re being targeted like this?”
I shook my head. “No. But although this has spread wider than Beijing, it began here. We need to review all cases from the last six months.”
“I can ask Huang Hua to recover the case files from the Cloud,” Zhang Daiyu replied. “It will take a few hours perhaps.”
“Good to know.”
“I’ll get him on it now,” she said, tapping furiously into her phone. “I’ll instruct everyone to work from home until further notice. The IT team will implement our remote working protocols.”
“This started with the investigation into David Zhou,” I observed. “I want to rule him in or out of this. He’s either been very unlucky or he’s part of whatever’s going on, and I need to know which. Who was our client?”
“Molly Tan,” Zhang Daiyu replied. “She’s a technology entrepreneur. She owns China’s second-largest online auction site and retailer. She and David Zhou have a history of being on opposite sides of deals.”
“OK.” I nodded. “I think we need to pay Ms Tan a visit.”
CHAPTER 25
