Chapter 23 - The Cipher Key
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Inside the narrow compartment lay a single, unlabelled black metallic flash drive and a folded piece of heavy parchment paper sealed with red wax.
Elena stood frozen in the quiet room, her instincts immediately screaming on high alert.
She picked up the parchment, breaking the red wax seal. The letter was written in dark, elegant calligraphy, dated just three weeks before Vanessa’s arrest.
To Agent Vance,
The board of Howard Global Logistics is merely step one. Do not allow your personal vendetta against Julian Howard to delay the primary objective. The master keys to the European routing network must be delivered to our Zurich terminal before the end of the fiscal year.
Failure to deliver will result in immediate liquidation of your assets—and your life.
Signed,
The Apex Syndicate.
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Elena felt a cold wave of ice wash through her veins.
Vanessa hadn't been acting out of solitary corporate greed. She wasn't just a rogue CFO trying to build a personal golden parachute. She was an operative working for a shadowy global cartel known as The Apex Syndicate.
