Drew responded with a nod. The group processed the information in silence. It was a shift in the investigation and everyone knew it. They were no longer just looking at Smythe or Getz or Eagle's Wing. Now they were looking for a murderer and arms dealer—a man with enough power and influence to make justabout anything happen. A man who now had a name and a face.
“And Sonny?” Dani asked. “How would he be involved?”
“You said it earlier,” Ty looked at Dani, though he spoke to the group. “If Frey is capable of dealing arms, making deals with drug cartels, and somehow dabbles in international politics, my guess is you're not far off on what he's done to Sonny. Now why he would manipulate Sonny, I don't know, but my guess is, he is,” and looking for confirmation, he turned back to Drew.
“He is involved with Sonny and we're on the same page here. We don't know how, or why, but Adam just sent a few photos of the two of them together.”
“You seem to know an awful lot about a guy you said you didn't know that much about,” Cotter noted.
Drew looked at the older man—a man who had probably seen more ugly things than most of the people in the room put together. He sighed, Christ the world can be a bad place, he thought. “We know where he traveled and are tracking down where he stayed during his travels—and he does travel a lot. But beyond that, we don't know much. We don't know where he lives when he's here in the US. He's got a bank account but it's not that big. We don't know what he does or who he sees when he travels. In other words, we have the skeleton of him but no meat. He's never been on a watch list, never raised any red flags. He was just a guy who traveled for business. But now we're digging and we're digging deep and fast,” he added.
“Great,” Fawkes drawled. “We've got ourselves a grade-A mother-fucking psychopath arming a group intent on making an explosive statement somehow, somewhere, and that's all we know about him?”
“That about sums up the situation,” Drew conceded with an annoyed shrug. He wasn't annoyed with Fawkes, but with the situation. It irritated him to no end that Frey had been operating for decades without so much as a by-your-leave from the CIA. It made his skin crawl thinking about all the things this guy might have done, might have been involved with. Things they might have been able to put a stop to had they put two and two together earlier. And while he hedged his bets with the team, there was no doubt in Drew's mind that Frey was pulling the strings and everyone, including Dani's parents, were nothing but puppets to him.
“And the plan?” Marmie asked.
“Now that we've got an ID on Frey, we've got someone on him,” he began to answer.
“Are we confident he won't tag the guy?” Spanky asked.
“It's Kapitany,” was all Drew needed to say to his team. They all nodded in approval. Ty, Jay, and the others looked to him for explanation.
“Ethan Kapitany?” Jay asked. When Drew nodded, Jay nodded back in recognition.
“Jay?” Ty said. Ty didn't say anything else, but he looked to his friend for assurance on Kapitany.
In response, Jay gave Ty a sharp nod. Drew saw Ty's shoulders relax and then send Roddy and Fawkes a single look. At this, they relaxed as well. Though Kaps was a company man through and through, it didn't surprise Drew that Jay knew of him. He was a legend among those who had ever touched his world—which, apparently included Jay.
“So what now?” Roddy asked.
“Now we rest. We wait. Cotter, I have a few things I'd like you to look into with respects to Frey's time in the army?” And, just like that, the meeting ended. Everyone but Cotter filed out and within minutes, Drew and the Cotter were alone.
When the door closed behind the last person, Drew turned and spoke. “Find out what the hell happened to him in Vietnam. He was a kid from nowhere when he went in and the minute he comes out he disappears and then shows up like this? Something happened, find out what.”
It wasn't a request and, though he didn't often give Cotter orders, even though he had a right to, he did so now—without hesitation. Cotter studied him for a long period and then, giving a