Lying in bed at night, John suddenly felt like the mouse in the fable who just wanted to hang a bell around the cat's neck. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

If you want to not be threatened by Hoover in the future, you have to seize Hoover's handle first. But how to catch it, and who will catch it, is a big problem.

First of all, John himself certainly couldn't have done this. Secondly, neither can Reilly. This kid is on his own initiative and has already caught the attention of the FBI.

Even if John has helped him get over in front of Hoover this time, the FBI will definitely keep an eye on him in the next period of time. Besides, he was already involved with Donovan, and letting him go would inevitably make things bigger. John didn't want to get involved in Donovan and Hoover's fight yet.

Speaking of which, Melvin is a good candidate. He is an FBI ace agent, he has first-class business ability, and he is familiar with the inside story of the FBI, and he has a personal grudge with Hoover, so he must be happy to do this.

However, he was now the executive director of FedEx, and Hoover also knew that he was working for himself. Once the action fails, it is too easy to expose yourself.

Others are either incompetent or insured. John didn't want to be sold over there by someone if he assigned the task here.

After thinking about it, John came up with a more feasible solution. Perhaps, he could let the "black rat" try. Although John hasn't dealt with them much all the time, he has heard that his ability is not bad.

The so-called "black rat" is actually a business intelligence agency established by the family's founder, Cornelius Sr., when he was running a boat on the East Coast. The name is due to the fact that the elder Cornelius first made his home on a small steamship called the Black Mouse.

At that time, this intelligence organization, together with the "Musketeers", which has now evolved into the family security team, played a great role in making Cornelius Sr. the largest shipowner in the United States by sweeping the docks on the East Coast.

After Cornelius Sr. shifted his focus to the railroad industry, the "Black Rats" and "Musketeers" followed ashore and extended their tentacles to major cities in the interior of the United States. When Grandpa William was alive, the intelligence network of "Black Mouse" even expanded to Latin America and Europe for a time.

But then, with the decline of the Vanderbilt family, the "Black Rat" intelligence agency gradually disappeared. Much of this power has long since been whitewashed and evolved into the few newspapers and magazines that the Vanderbilt family now controls.

Today, the "black rat" only retains a small part of its strength in the family base in New York State, and it is said that it has a good reputation in the "industry" under the banner of a detective agency to engage in some commercial espionage and intelligence traffickers.

At present, the head of this small intelligence organization is the lobby brother in charge of the family's financial and media industry, Cornelius III.

It was only after John entered the family's decision-making level that he learned that the family still had such an underground intelligence organization, and he didn't know much about it. Whether the "black rat" is as god as the legend is, and whether he can be qualified for this "dangerous" job, John himself has no idea.

Before approaching Cornelius III, he decided to seek William's opinion. After all, in political matters, William still has the most right to speak. He wanted to use the power of the family to deal with Hoover, and he had to get the nod of William.

Lately, William has spent most of his time in Washington. He has been invited to join Wells' campaign for a presidential election that is unlikely to win.

Although Rhode Island is the longest (Rhodes Island and Providence Manor) and the smallest (3,140 square kilometers) state in the United States, William is not much of a governor and is not as powerful as he was when he was a member of the U.S. Senate. But Wells is obviously a role of "accompanying the prince to study" this time, and William is a campaign aide to him, in fact, he is just fulfilling his obligations within the party.

Because John is currently a military member, it is inconvenient to appear at the campaign headquarters in Wales. On the phone, William offered to come to John's house the next night to talk to each other, and by the way, to see Adele and the "children".

Since Adele became pregnant, the family has been extremely concerned about the child in her womb. After all, for a big family like Vanderbilt, nothing is more important than family legacy. So, without much thought, John agreed.

The next night, until about ten o'clock, Adele was ready to go to bed, and William was late. It can be seen that his face is quite bad, and he looks very tired.

"Is something going on on the campaign committee?" John asked with concern.

William waved his hand: "It has nothing to do with the campaign committee. John, I'm here today to ask for your opinion. ”

John was suddenly a little confused. What could William have done to be so serious?

"Lately, you might need to take a trip to London." William opened his mouth and startled both John and Adele, who was preparing a drink for them.

"London! Isn't that dangerous? Adele grabbed John's arm excitedly, as if he would disappear as soon as he let go," the newspaper said, saying that the walls of Buckingham Palace had been blown down by the Germans. ”

John was very calm, since he put on this military uniform, he knew that sooner or later there would be such a day, but he didn't expect it to be so soon.

"What are you going to do in London?" John asked as he patted his wife's hand to tell her not to get too excited.

"Some people in Parliament have some doubts about the current plan to aid Britain, and have proposed to send an inspection team to take a look at the field and assess whether Britain can really have the will and strength to continue fighting."

"The Downing Street side has agreed, and has given a list of invitations." William continued, "On top of that, the White House has drawn up a list of more than 30 people for an expedition that is being discussed in Congress, and it has your name on it. Arthur (Arthur Vandenberg, Senate Republican Leader) brought me over last night to talk about it. ”

"So, the final list hasn't been decided yet, has it? Can you remove John's name from the list? Adele asked anxiously.

"Adele, calm down first." Adele is now more than eight months pregnant, and John is really afraid that if she gets emotional, something will happen. "Even if you go, it's not as dangerous as you think. For an inspection team of this level, the safety work will be done very well. ”

"John is right, Adele. The delegation will take a ship with George VI and his family to England, and the safety is absolutely guaranteed. The British would not let their king take any risks. William also busily comforted Adele.

"Don't worry, dear. You see Leith and they have been in England for so long, aren't they all right? To reassure Adele, John continued: "Even if we go to London, we will live in the embassy, and the Germans will not dare to bomb it." ”

"But, I'm about to give birth, what can I do if you're not at home?" Adele said with tears streaming down her face.

"Don't cry yet, isn't it still finalized." John wiped away Adele's tears in distress, and glanced at William, who was rubbing his hands together in embarrassment.

"yes, yes." William hurriedly cooperated: "The list is still being discussed, didn't I come to discuss with you and ask your opinions." ”

To put it mildly, John finally persuaded Adele to go back to her room to rest. He still had a lot of questions to ask William about this expedition.