Mike Taylor and his men brought the evidence from the scene, especially the remote-controlled toy car, back to the lab.

Before leaving, Jack deliberately checked the data corresponding to the model on the Internet, the remote control distance of this thing is as high as 200 meters, he doesn't know what the meaning of this is, even in the daytime, 50 meters away is enough to see this little thing.

Maybe it's to be able to make a driverless toy car with a camera, but it doesn't matter, Mike Taylor and his researchers will soon figure out the frequency band in which it operates, and then provide a batch of radio shields that work in this band.

Jack returned to the operations center alone, which was already overcrowded, Dana Morege issued a terrorist attack warning, and the liaison officers from the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) and ATF (Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives) were all in place.

Local law enforcement is also indispensable, and no one can afford to take things lightly when the NYPD and the New York State Police directly send their senior commanders to coordinate the work.

Because according to Mark Vascoe's confession, he got a total of $600,000 in cash and sold a full 400 pounds of Semtin plastic explosives.

The 400 pounds of explosives, if placed in the right place, could be used to blast and demolish a building dozens of stories high, and the damage it could cause should not be underestimated, even if it was simply detonated all at once.

Compared with DHS's "dragging its feet" this time, the ATF has made a great contribution this time, without their intelligence, Mark Vasco would not have been arrested so quickly, after all, it is a brother unit under the same Department of Justice as the FBI.

Today's federal law enforcement units, or federal police, are mostly under two branches, the DOJ (Department of Justice) and the DHS (Department of Homeland Security).

The DOJ (Department of Justice) is responsible for the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the USMS, and the ATF.

DHS (Department of Homeland Security) is under: USCG (Coast Guard), CBP (Customs and Border Protection), ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), USSS (Secret Service) where Jack Reicher's brother Joey Reicher is located, and so on.

Jubal and Hannah, who had returned to work after a short break, were busy as Jack sent the news back and they were sifting through various targets for possible attacks.

The FBI doesn't need to worry about the government agencies and sensitive locations that could be attacked at any given moment, and they all have special departments in charge of them, as Jubal says at the moment, only those so-called "soft targets."

"Mr. and Mrs. Kane have been on road trips for the past six months, having spent their credit cards from Boston, Buffalo, Pittsburgh to Baltimore.

We focused on screening transportation hubs, airports, train stations, bus stops, and areas where there may be large concentrations of illegal immigrants, and notified the local police to conduct rigorous carpet searches. ”

"There are also two tire prints at the scene, one of which is a Ford Raptor F150, which should be the one driven by Emma Kane's accomplice Joey Carter, didn't he use the real license plate before, did he find out his whereabouts?" Jack asked.

"Not yet, the highway police in various places have received the investigation notice, and I suspect that the other party has changed the fake license plate." Hannah shook her head, the Ford Raptor F150 is the highest-selling pickup truck in Laomei, it can be said that it is all over the street, and it is really not easy to check.

"In addition, you said that there were a total of five people's footprints at the scene, which was also confirmed in Mark Vasco's confession, he went alone, and Emma Kane brought a total of three men, but in addition to Joey Carter, the identities of the other two people are still waiting to be confirmed."

Hearing her mention Mark Vasco's confession, Jack subconsciously raised his head and glanced around the operations center, "What about Lacroix?" He's still interrogating that arms dealer? ”

"No, he's interrogating Austin Stevens, the director of ICE, are you going to go over and take a look?" Jubal replied with a subtle expression on his face.

"Uh, okay." Jack is very good, and he is also curious about the style of the wanted criminal department, because Lacroix and his subordinates are all wanted criminals with conclusive evidence, and I have heard that the style of doing things is more oriented towards the operation troops.

Sure enough, when he came to the interrogation room downstairs, he faintly heard the screams of killing pigs inside through the door.

The so-called interrogation room had neither a one-way glass observation room, nor any monitoring and listening equipment, but was converted from a storage room next to the underground garage.

Jack opened the door and entered, and inside was a stainless steel table fixed to the floor, with an iron rod the size of an adult's arm welded in the center of the table to hold the handcuffs in place.

There was no bloodshed in the room, and Director Stevens was shivering from the cold in a sleeveless T-shirt, his hands were cuffed to irons, and under his ass was a normal folding chair, and Lacroix was leaning against the table in front of him.

Lacroix's posture was a little indecent, however, as he had placed his left foot on the folding chair, just between the legs of the gentleman.

When Jack entered, Lacroix exerted another force on his left foot, and the folding chair made a screeching sound against the floor, and was pushed back slightly, and Director Stevens was restrained with his hands on the iron rod on the table, and could only try to pout his butt back in the direction of the chair's movement.

The middle-aged man's stiff body involuntarily tensed to the limit, as if it was a bow that could be broken at any moment, and he had only two choices, either continue to endure this torturous position, or stop stepping back and completely place his male weakness at the point of force at Lacroix's feet.

"Please, what do you want to know? I swear, I'll tell you everything! Please stop, I'm so sorry for what happened to your daughter, I'm sorry, I was wrong! ”

As if he had learned some new tricks, Jack crossed his arms and watched this scene with interest, but the sound of him opening the door just now attracted the attention of the two of them, and he raised his hand to indicate that he was just watching the excitement, "Ah, you go on, I'm just here to learn." ”

Lacroix turned his head expressionlessly, and continued to exert force under his feet, the folding chair made a harsh grinding sound again, and the screams sounded again, and Austin Stevens's face had turned the color of pig liver, and his voice became extremely poignant.

"Help! Help me! What do you want to know? I can say anything, please stop! ”

"Uh" Jack glanced at Lacroix, who had never said a word, and was secretly amused in his heart, feeling that this person really came with a bit of a communiqué and personal vendetta.

He had suggested on the phone with Dana Moge that the gentleman in charge should be interrogated, but it was not completely unpurposeful.

This Stevens is also a supervisor, almost equivalent to Hodgner's level in the FBI, and it is unlikely that he will work hard for the grass stage team of the Kane couple.

Moreover, Kane and his wife are so poor that they even rely on child kidnapping for extortion to obtain a million dollars in activity funds, so naturally they have no money to buy him.

Then Stevens is willing to cooperate with them and use his power to stumble Lacroix, naturally for the sake of the common idea of both sides.

The ICE director is indeed a white supremacist, and while he has neither the courage nor the ability to put his ideas into action, that doesn't stop him from moving his fingers and forging several documents to turn the identity of an American child into a South American smuggler who needs to be deported.

Maybe in his opinion, the risk is not big, and he has also prepared in advance, even if the East Window incident happens, it is a big deal to push the head of the predecessor who has left the company, or simply ask three questions and blame it on a system error, anyway, this kind of thing happens every day.

So what does he gain by doing so? In Jack's opinion, there are no more than two points, the first is his identity as the director of ICE.

If the white supremacy movement does emerge, the importance of ICE as a department will be raised to a whole new level, and both the treatment and the perception of insiders will be close to this new political trend, although this is very unlikely.

Then there's a sense of engagement and satisfaction, which is why Jack guessed he must know something, and while this guy may not have actually been part of the action or planning, he needed to be recognized, the kind of white supremacist identity he was.

So he will definitely use his status as a collaborator to inquire about the plans of Kane and his wife, and the latter will reveal some information in order to get his help.

(End of chapter)