Fortunately, his boss did not ask for those 'followers' cars to be thrown to Tierra del Fuego this time. There were only 11 unlucky guys distributed on the east and west coasts responsible for tracking the Westeros family.
After two busy days, Martin Dinham sent a Gulfstream IV jet to take off on a stretch of road that was temporarily used as a private airport in Solano State on the Mexican border with the United States. On board was a group of his troops. And those 11 poor guys who will wake up to the southernmost point of the earth.
In addition to many normal commercial flights, there are also many unknown secret routes in the world.
The Gulfstream IV that just left will make a transit in Colombia, and then fly directly to Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of Argentina. The landing point is also the inaccessible wilderness road of Tierra del Fuego. The reception has been arranged there. If everything goes well. , arrived in Tierra del Fuego 15 hours later, left the people behind, completed supplies, and returned to the United States in about 30 hours.
Of course, this secret voyage also costs a lot of money.
It cost all parties just $300,000 to manage. The Gulfstream IV, which came from an interest group behind a certain Argentinian political figure who specialized in similar private work, quoted a price as high as $500,000, including fuel and other expenses. The total cost of the voyage came to $1 million.
Fortunately, these are not problems for my own boss.
When the figure of the Gulfstream IV completely disappeared in the sky, Martin Dinham threw away the cigarette butts in his hands and called on several of his subordinates to get on the roadside SUV and return to the U.S. border dozens of kilometers away.
There was no concern about whether the group that had just left would be able to reach their destination smoothly.
When Pablo Escobar, the leader of the Medellin Cartel in Colombia, ranked seventh on the Forbes list of the world's richest people as a drug lord, at his peak, drugs worth tens of millions of dollars passed through similar secret routes almost every day. Shipped from Colombia to Mexico and then into the United States.
The more troublesome voyage from Colombia to Argentina happened to be offset by the origin of the Gulfstream IV.
Moreover, those unlucky ones who were exiled to Tierra del Fuego were also a great gift to a certain Argentinian politician. A group of unidentified people secretly 'sneaked' into Argentina and were suspected of being agents. If the master behind the scenes wanted to redeem them, he would not have to bleed a single amount of money. is unlikely. If ignored at all, the potential risks of international public opinion caused by desperate pawns are even more unpredictable.
Although twelve years have passed since the Falklands War, the relationship between Argentina and Western countries is still not very good.
It was already Monday evening when I returned to Phoenix, Arizona, from Mexico.
The next phase of the work is mainly to monitor the Hearst family, and Martin Dinham and his team will return to the East Coast at night. In order to avoid attracting attention, the group of six people dispersed after entering Phoenix, and each bought a ticket to fly to New York in pairs.
In the airport terminal, Martin Dinham was sitting on a chair in the lobby with his eyes closed while waiting for the flight to take off. A subordinate who had just gone to buy newspapers to kill time on the flight hurried over and patted him. shoulder and handed over a copy of the Arizona Daily Star.
Without any additional signals from his men, Martin Dinham saw the bold headline on the front page of the newspaper at a glance: "Famous Wall Street Hedge Fund Manager Suffers Execution-Style Shooting."
In the picture accompanying the article, even though it has been mosaic processed, you can still easily see the shocking and tragic scene of the murder scene.
As he continued to browse the article, Martin Dinham found that a thin layer of sweat had unknowingly formed on his back. It wasn't guilt or fear, but he realized that he had seriously misjudged the young boss.
When Martin Dinham left the East Hampton estate two days ago, he considered how his boss would handle the situation.
From the murderous intent emanating from Simon at that time, Dinham judged that the two of them would inevitably die.
However, it is undoubtedly the best way to let the two masterminds of the assassination disappear without knowing it, just like the assassin who cannot even find a bone or a tooth again. Or pretending to be suicide or death in an accident can also minimize the potential risk of this matter.
Even if it is more intense and a shooting occurs, the clues should be directed to factors such as accidental robbery as much as possible.
This is Martin Dinham's judgment based on his long-term and long-term quiet observation of his boss's personal temperament and behavior. Before this, Martin Dinham had always believed that Simon was a person who did not like to conflict with others.
It now appears that the previous judgment was completely wrong.
Martin Dinham never expected that his boss would use an 'execution-style shooting' as a demonstration.
Perhaps, it was never that he disliked conflict with others, he just disdained it.
Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for a lion to argue with an ant. However, if the ant touches the bottom line of the lion's tolerance, the result will be extremely miserable.
According to the description in the newspaper article, the victim was asked to kneel on the ground. Then, the executioner used a shotgun instead of a pistol. A shotgun fired at the back of the head directly shattered half of Clark Gralf's head. head. According to the description of the article, if you look at the obvious red and white spots around the mosaic photo, people with weak endurance may be able to vomit.
He folded the newspaper and threw it aside. Martin Dinham glanced at his subordinates who were still looking at him, paused, and said, "Forget about this, completely forget about it."
The subordinate nodded, imitating Martin Dinham's behavior just now and began to take a nap with his eyes closed.
In order to collect all those 'followers', they have hardly had much rest in the past two days.
Martin Dinham, however, no longer felt sleepy.
Because he suddenly figured out another thing.
Originally, after the assassination, his boss should immediately clear away the 'flies' that had been surrounding the Westeros family for a long time, so that certain risks could be reduced as much as possible before the results of the assassination investigation were released.
After all, so many pairs of eyes staring at the Westeros family are almost equivalent to artificial infrared guidance.
Simon did not do this.
Thinking about it now, his boss probably wanted to let certain people know about the assassination, and even guide them to investigate the matter at the same time. In fact, his boss may even take the initiative to leak the investigation results of the incident.
Then, shock!
In the report given by Martin Dinham, the main conspirators were George Woodfield and Clark Gralf, as well as three other auxiliary participants. Not surprisingly, none of these people will be able to escape punishment in the near future. .
And none of them will be punished in obscurity.
His boss is telling some people that if they want to take action against the Westeros family, they must consider the retaliation they will encounter once the matter is exposed.
This is shock.
In this world, perhaps just for a few million dollars, many people can commit the most heinous crimes in the world.
Simon Westeros has $200 billion.
The superficially civilized human society is still unable to get rid of the natural law of the jungle. Now that we have reached our current position, if that young man is still a harmless 'herbivore', he is destined to be eaten up by many wild beasts. .
My boss obviously knows this very well.
Standing at the top of the narrow social pyramid, if you don’t want to be squeezed out by those around you, or dragged down by those under your feet, you will no longer be able to firmly follow the world or the rules set by others. In other people’s rules, outsiders The loser must be the loser, so he can only create his own rules, and when necessary, drag as many people into his own rules as possible in order to gain an advantage.
The 'Westeros Rules' given by Simon Westeros in response to the last assassination incident are the most intense tit for tat.
Inside the Phoenix terminal.
Martin Dinham thought about this and had to admit that this was the most correct way for his boss to handle it.
If we follow secular rules and call the police after the assassination, let the FBI investigate the matter, and then send the mastermind behind the scenes to prison in accordance with federal law, then in the eyes of some people, Simon Westeros may very well become A joke, a big joke.
Martin Dinham brings people back to New York, and the murder case about Clark Gralff is also rapidly unfolding.
The Wall Street hedge fund manager had just lost $300 million of his investors' money in the past few months, especially since the Woodfield family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was nearly wiped out. Therefore, the motive for the murder was in the person of Sherlock Holmes. It seems obvious to the media.
Many investors of the original Graf Capital, including George Woodfield, received inquiries from the police in the following days, and the media became more and more enthusiastic about the matter.
Then, without giving some people a chance to breathe and recover, in just two days, three massacres occurred in succession on the east and west coasts of the United States.
Three families, one is a killer middleman in Queens, Manhattan, one is a well-known psychiatrist in Pittsburgh, and the other is a private detective in Los Angeles.
Of the three participants, the middleman was, of course, the psychiatrist who was responsible for brainwashing the killer, and the private detective in Los Angeles was responsible for investigating the Dume Point Manor in order to provide the killer with a suitable opportunity when all the Westeros family members were in the manor. .
However, except for some insiders, probably no one can connect the massacres that caused the death of a total of thirteen people in three families across the United States. Among them, the psychiatrist in Pittsburgh even had a promising future as a law school student at Yale. Wuliang’s sons were not spared. On the night the doctor and his wife were killed, their 21-year-old son in Boston was also found dead in a remote alley where the city’s sewage flowed. He was still shot to the head in an almost execution-style manner.
Of course things won't end here.
When the federal media linked the recent series of vicious murders and accused the authorities of being incompetent and allowing domestic security to continue to deteriorate, on Friday, April 15, a bombing shocked the entire United States.
Pittsburgh.
An employee of the Monroeville Machinery Company broke into the Woodfield family estate where a weekend family meeting was taking place to discuss how to deal with recent difficulties, and detonated C4 explosives tied to his body on the spot. The Woodfield family's century-old luxury mansion was violently exploded on the spot. reduced to ruins.
19 died and 11 were injured.
All the male members of the Woodfield family who had some say were killed or injured, including the four members of George Woodfield's family who were in charge of the family business, as well as many other side members.
The assailant was a 52-year-old assembly shop operator who had just been laid off by the Monroeville Machinery Company at the beginning of this year. Because of a previous accident that left his left hand disabled, coupled with his drinking habit, this employee has never been married, and the other party started when he was 23 years old. Working for the Monroeville Machinery Company, his 29-year career only resulted in loneliness and poverty near his later years. He indeed had a very good reason to take revenge on the Woodfield family.
However, this time, no matter how stupid you are, you can see something fishy.
How could a poor and destitute old man obtain more than 5 kilograms of C4 explosives
Moreover, at the same time as the bombing occurred, a fire broke out in the perpetrator's dilapidated cabin, obliterating all traces. Although eyewitnesses later confirmed that the fire was probably lit by the perpetrator before leaving, is this really the case
Not only that, at noon on the day when the incident occurred, an employee demonstration happened to appear at the main entrance of the Woodfield Family Manor, attracting the attention of all security personnel in the manor. This gave the former employee the opportunity to quietly break in from the other side of the manor. Chance.
Could this be a coincidence
The following Saturday, the powerful media once again obtained a piece of information from an informant inside the task force.
A large dose of a certain stimulant component was found in the murderer's body parts collected at the scene of the explosion. According to expert judgment, the role of that stimulant should be to ensure that the murderer would not flinch at the last moment. After all, human beings have a survival instinct. It is very powerful. Even terminally ill patients usually choose to linger if they can live one more day.
However, most of the clues stop there.
Why did this explosion happen
What was the motive of the murderer, or to be more precise, the person behind it
Such no room is spared, indicating that the real culprit behind the scenes should have irreconcilable and deep hatred with the Woodfield family.
Of course, there is no shortage of old enemies for a long-established family with a century-old heritage.
It's just that those who can compete tit-for-tat with the Woodfield family basically have a good foundation of their own, so few dare to throw away everything and risk being sent to the gallows to create such a tragic bombing.
So, what is the root cause of the matter
The person who carried out the bombing was very professional, and the traces left behind allowed the FBI task force to 100% confirm that there was someone behind the incident. However, there was no way to trace it. In addition, the whole incident lacked conclusive causes and consequences, so the explosion was very likely. It will become a classic mystery with no beginning or end.
However, for some people, the inside story is certainly not top secret.
Just like the Kennedy assassination, too many facts have proved that both the federal government and the Kennedy family knew who the real murderer was behind the scenes, but perhaps it was due to lack of evidence, perhaps to protect the face of the federal government, or perhaps other reasons that were not Despite the complex reasons, the public may never know the truth.
Simon received a call from Clinton himself the day after the bombing.
Mr. President warned Simon implicitly that recent events were too much. Of course, Simon would not give any positive response. He also warned Mr. President on the phone whether he knew anything in advance, for example, Before March 9
By the end of Friday's bombings, all those responsible had been quickly evacuated from the United States.
Moreover, these temporary executors bribed from Colombia have completely disappeared on the high seas returning to Latin America.
Even if these temporary executioners are arrested by the authorities, it is impossible to implicate Simon. He still does not intend to leave any direct loopholes.
The executor this time was a mercenary from South Africa. The mission they received was just a private vendetta. There was no more information, and it was even less possible to connect their mission with the bombing that had just occurred in the United States. Moreover, The mercenaries were also hired through multiple agents, and it was still impossible to trace any evidence to Simon.
Therefore, even if the inside story becomes known to more people in the future, it will be impossible for the authorities to build a complete chain of evidence pointing to Simon. Unless someone wants to take revenge on those people without following the rules like Simon, it's a pity that Simon has basically eliminated the root cause.
Multiple vicious incidents that lasted for a week also triggered a series of chain reactions.
The first is the Republican Party's large-scale attack on the deterioration of federal security caused by the Democratic Party's failure to combat domestic crime. This has been the most effective weapon used by the Republican Party to attack the Democratic Party in many elections in recent years, and it has resonated with many voters for a time.
The Democratic Party once again raised its stance on gun control.
Only this time, it is equivalent to actively giving the handle to the Republican Party: Since you think your gun control laws are effective, why do these vicious incidents still happen in the United States
Not only that, another surprising and special chain reaction has recently occurred.
After the first execution-style shooting was exposed, many hedge funds on Wall Street began to clear out their short positions in technology stocks, probably because they were worried about following in the footsteps of Clark Gralf, and they all turned to long positions.
Sunday, April 17th.
It’s still sunny in Los Angeles.
There is nothing new under the sun.
The fireball high above always only shines on the places it can reach, never paying attention to the dark corners of the human world.
There are still many things going on recently. Simon planned to continue working in the morning, but after breakfast, Jennifer took him to a church in Mali. The female assistant did not express any opinions on the series of events in the past week, but the eyes she occasionally looked at Simon these days were full of worry.
It's Sunday.
There were many people in the church. The female assistant quietly pulled Simon to a corner and sat down. She looked at Simon deeply with clear eyes, and her tone was like an elder sister lecturing her younger brother: "Come, pray with me."
The two Jennys who are closest to her are indeed Simon's sisters, if only in terms of age.
Simon smiled and nodded, watching the female assistant bend down with her hands on her forehead and begin to pray devoutly, but he did not follow her, but looked calmly at the Crucifixion statue in front of the church.
The heart is like still water.
At some point, a song from the past suddenly came to mind.
*…
*Merciful Father, I have fallen
*A kingdom where sin is invisible
*Please forgive my arrogance
*…
However, this singing was quickly interrupted by a voice from the bottom of my heart.
No!
I don’t forgive anyone, and I don’t ask for any forgiveness.