Chapter 24 - THE SWISS BANK CIPHER
Maya immediately called Agent Vance, who arrived at her apartment within twenty minutes accompanied by two intelligence analysts. They sat around her marble dining table, examining the letter under UV light and running digital scans on the wax seal.
"This seal belongs to 'The Sovereign Trust'," Vance explained grimly, setting his tablet on the table. "They are an ancient private banking syndicate operating out of Zurich that finances illegal military operations worldwide."
"What could my father have taken from them thirty years ago?" Maya asked, pacing slowly across the hardwood floor.
"Arthur spent three years working in Switzerland before he returned to America to start his company," Vance recalled, pulling up archived diplomatic files. "There were reports of a high-security breach at the Bank of Zurich in 1996 that was never publicly explained."
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Maya stopped pacing, her eyes locking onto a framed photograph of her father resting on the bookshelf. In the photo, her father stood in front of the Swiss Alps, wearing a gold signet ring that she had never seen him wear in America.
"The ring," Maya whispered, her heart hammering against her ribs. "He wasn't wearing a watch in that photo; he was holding a signet ring."
