Chapter 26 - THE CAPTURED ASSASSIN
Inside a secure interrogation room at the FBI Field Office in Newark, James stood behind the one-way glass mirror.
The captured gunman sat handcuffed to the table, his face bruised and his tactical uniform stripped of all identifying badges.
FBI Special Agent Marcus Vance—no relation to Ethan—stepped out of the room, holding a decrypted satellite phone.
"The phone recovered from the suspect made three calls to a private server registered in Vienna, Austria," Agent Vance reported.
"The server belongs to a man named Baron Erik von Bern," the agent revealed, sliding a photograph across the table.
Nora looked at the photograph of a handsome, cold-eyed European nobleman in his late fifties.
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"He claims your mother stole three hundred million dollars in digital assets twenty-five years ago," Agent Vance added.
"My mother didn't steal anything," Nora stated firmly. "She hid those assets to prevent him from funding illegal weapons cartels."
