Chapter 15
Mateo stood up in the smoking server room, securing his weapons as emergency police sirens wailed outside the building.
He retrieved the primary server hard drive the mercenaries had tried to destroy, sliding it safely into his tactical bag.
Sofia's voice came through his earpiece: "Mateo, local police are surrounding the perimeter!"
"I'm exiting through the underground service tunnel," Mateo replied, sliding through a hidden maintenance hatch behind the mainframes.
Twenty minutes later, he met Sofia inside an unmarked mobile command vehicle parked three blocks away.
"Vanguard Global is the largest private equity firm in New York," Sofia explained, pulling up corporate organizational charts on her screens.
"They control over two hundred billion dollars in global assets, and their CEO is Jonathan Cross."
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Mateo stared at the glowing picture of Jonathan Cross—a fifty-year-old billionaire sitting in a Manhattan skyscraper.
"Jonathan Cross was the man who funded Richard Vance's land grab ten years ago," Mateo realized, his eyes narrowing.
