North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 768 Pause and Fishing

Dave talked to Jimmy on the phone late at night and couldn't sleep at all. This matter was a bit tricky. The key was that it had nothing to do with him in the first place, so he certainly couldn't bear the trouble this time.

After thinking about it, he picked up the phone and sent a few text messages, then waited for the other person's reply. For people at a certain level, even if they don't have their phones with them temporarily, they have assistants or other people to help them hold their phones, so they won't miss any messages. You have to believe that his number is definitely not dispensable to people at this level.

Sure enough, the text message alert sounded soon. Dave took a look and did not reply to the call or text message.

The next morning, instead of going to the office, Dave drove to a golf course in New Jersey.

After changing his clothes, he carried his clubs and got on a golf cart to the venue. He practiced while waiting for people. Soon two cars came up to him, dropped off the people and equipment, and left.

"The weather is nice today." A middle-aged man about the same age as Dave spoke first, and another old man with gray hair had already taken out his golf club and started exercising.

Dave didn't reply, but continued to stare at his target, swung the club hard, and with a "bang", the golf ball flew out and disappeared in an instant.

Dave leaned his golf club on the ground with both hands, looked at the two men and said, "Well, the weather is nice. I hope you are in a good mood now, too."

The old man stretched his limbs and asked, "It seems that there is some bad news. Tell me, Dave."

Dave: "I want you to temporarily stop all activities in Harriton. Two people died in Los Angeles within a few days of each other. Things have changed."

The old man stopped his warm-up exercises, looked at Dave calmly and said, "Who?"

Dave: "One is someone who attended Harriton's party, and the other is a shareholder of his foundation. They are both related to him."

The middle-aged man glanced at the old man and said, "Have you investigated the matter of Hareton?"

Dave: "Not yet. Like I told you before, the people who did it are too professional. The detectives in charge of the investigation have searched for clues but still haven't locked in the suspect. Now it seems that the person behind the scenes may have started to move again."

Old man: "It seems not so easy, Colin, how much money have they raised?"

Colin, a middle-aged man, said: "Maybe several million, but it's just an estimate at the moment, the actual number may be even less."

The old man sighed, "Well, let's think of other ways."

Colin: "It's not a big problem. There's still a long time before the party primary election, and we still have a lot of advantages."

The old man shook his head: "This time is different, but let's go back and communicate with the others."

Dave didn't interrupt their conversation, just listened quietly.

The old man began to move his limbs again. "Dave, your people...are they reliable?"

Dave shrugged. “Of course, he’s the best.”

The old man nodded: "I think maybe we should investigate it a little more."

Dave shook his head. “That’s Los Angeles. The Los Angeles office of the three major branches is right there. If we want to intervene…”

Old man: "Let's think of another way."

To put it bluntly, this matter is a competition between multiple candidates within the party. It has no direct relationship to people like him in functional departments. Factional struggles are struggles between upper-level figures, and everyone else is a pawn. Even if they are unwilling, they still have to stay consistent with their own faction.

New York and California are both traditional blue states, but internal competition is still everywhere. For some people, there are only two or three key candidates. At this stage, of course, they hope to do everything possible to eliminate their opponents and ensure that their people can successfully enter the final stage.

For them, the amount of funds raised determines to a certain extent the exposure and success rate of the candidates. For these businessmen who provide political donations, creating some trouble for them and delaying the pace of providing funds will make them have nothing to choose from as long as the party primaries are over, and they can only support the successful candidates.

In fact, in addition to Harriton's people in Los Angeles, there are two people in New York on the list Dave provided to Jimmy. These two people were also provided by these people. The "traitors" who appeared in the New York base camp, if they can be given a little "lesson" now, they can also turn back in time and return to the faction.

This plan was also implemented at the suggestion of the staff of some big guys. For Dave, who was in a key position, it was nothing to do something that could be done just by talking. After all, it was Jimmy who did the work, and there was no doubt about Jimmy's ability, he could definitely get it done.

Now, because of two suspected murders caused by this elusive professional killer, their previous plans have completely gone to waste. After all, they are all from the same party, and they just wanted to increase the difficulty and cause them more trouble. Who would have thought that another murder would happen.

The old man and the middle-aged man Colin stopped talking about these things and changed the topic to talk about something else. The three of them played for a while and then left the club.

Dave is not completely their messenger. Now that the matter has obviously gotten out of control, he wants to directly intervene in Jimmy's investigation and ask him to turn his attention back to investigating the two dead men. Jimmy may not refuse, but he will definitely have objections. After all, there has been no progress in the yacht explosion case that has been investigated these days. It is not so easy to ask him to change his target to investigate the murder case now. The key is that it is Los Angeles. Once they leave the original case and start investigating other things, they will definitely be interfered with.

New York, Los Angeles, and Washington DC are the three largest branches of the FBI. Like Dave, these two branches are managed by high-level personnel, and there are more corresponding field personnel. Jimmy was dispatched by the headquarters to deal with the yacht explosion case, so he and Mark who came to Los Angeles before could get support from the Los Angeles office and access to information, vehicles, personnel, etc. However, if he wanted to deal with the death cases that occurred in Los Angeles, he would be exceeding his authority. Even if these two deaths were suspected to be unnatural deaths, they should be handled by people from the LAPD or the Los Angeles office.

Dave returned to the office, checked some information, picked up the note on his desk, took a look at it, and called to book a flight to Washington DC.
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Mrs. Harriton's operation went smoothly. Although she was not young, her health was still good. She was transferred out of the hospital soon after leaving the ICU. After all, the place was not suitable for her to stay in for a long time. It was not because she could not afford it, but that the place itself was not prepared for people like her. Being able to arrange an emergency operation after the accident was already a testament to her financial ability.

The news that Jimmy killed the old man did not reach Mrs. Harriton, because they were not particularly close family members. In fact, Mr. Harriton was the person in charge of external business of their family, and his network of relationships was also on his side. After Harriton died, Mrs. Harriton did not take over Mr. Harriton's network of relationships in its entirety, but she quickly took over the Harriton family business. After all, these were all things that were in the open.

But on the night she returned to Sunstone Villa, news came that a shareholder of the foundation had died. Even though it seemed like an accident because of a leakage in the wires next to the bathtub, which caused him to be electrocuted while taking a bath, Mrs. Hareton did not believe it was an accident at all. Although her bodyguard was not a professional killer, he still made the same judgment that this death was not an accident. Although he himself could not do it so cleanly, he believed that someone could do it.

Just as Jimmy guessed, Mrs. Hareton's team also tended to believe that her previous car accident was man-made. Now that she had just been discharged from the hospital and another shareholder of the company had died, this was definitely not an isolated incident. It was just that she was not sure who did it yet.

She hired two bodyguards because of Jimmy's reminder and because she knew some things about her husband. She couldn't completely disbelieve the professional speculation given by the FBI agents. After she investigated some things, she immediately realized that her situation was very dangerous, but she didn't have the advantage of time and control over the company, so she had to give accurate information as much as possible while ensuring her own safety, so that the FBI could intervene and give others a warning, so that she could at least delay for a while.

But Mrs. Hareton's plan went awry. She had never expected that someone would be so eager to give her a surprise and reunite her with her husband. And judging from the death of another shareholder, it seemed that the other party wanted more than just her.

When Jimmy called her, she didn't dare to tell Jimmy directly that she was back. Now she really didn't know who to trust. Even if this FBI agent was trustworthy in every way, she still couldn't guarantee that the news of her return would not leak out.

Agent Yang's investigation was very aboveboard. She knew where Jimmy lived, so naturally other people could do the same. If he came to the manor to find her, he would probably bring the person who was following him with him. She couldn't take any risks now.

After thinking for a long time, Mrs. Hareton called her lawyer and asked him to help her arrange a few people to meet her in a secluded place, as it was not convenient for her to make the call herself.

The family lawyer, Sebastian Molloy, was very reliable to some extent. Even at night, Sebastian still did what Mrs. Hareton asked him to do, and quickly notified everyone, then changed his clothes and left the apartment.

The security in Los Angeles is not good, but it does not include several famous wealthy areas. Some people who were notified went to a hidden club as agreed.

In a small conference room, Sebastian still used his laptop to connect to the projector and connected to Mrs. Hareton's video link.

Mrs. Hareton leaned weakly against the head of the bed and looked at the monitor in front of her, which showed several surveillance cameras in the conference room, and could observe the people sitting at the conference table from multiple angles. "Everyone, I'm sorry to ask you to come here so late. I think everyone already knows about Pete's matter. What do you think?"

A middle-aged man frowned at Mrs. Hareton and asked, "We already know about Pete's matter, but, Mrs. Hareton, are you hurt? What happened?"

For safety reasons, Mrs. Hareton blocked the news of her surgery. Except for Agent Jimmy, who was the person she needed to contact, no one else was notified. She shook her head and said, "It was just an operation in the hospital, nothing. What do you think of Pete's case? What do the police say?"

The middle-aged man looked at the others, and they all turned to look at him. He knew that he could only speak for himself. He looked at the camera on the table and said, "The police said that he died of accidental electrocution. They checked Pete's home and found no signs of intrusion or other problems."

Mrs. Hareton looked unhappy. "Just an accident? In fact, I had a car accident a few days ago, and the brakes were damaged."

Several people were in a commotion, and those who were sitting inside were whispering something, their faces were not very good. The middle-aged man asked in surprise: "Did you go to the hospital because of the car accident?"

Mrs. Hareton nodded. "So you still think that Pete's death was an accident? I think someone has already started to act, first my husband and his partner, and then Pete... You should also pay attention."

The middle-aged man lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said, "That FBI agent is still investigating Mr. Harriton's case. Should we let him investigate?"

Mrs. Hareton: "No, the police have already come to a conclusion. Let's not work on Pete's death anymore. I would like to ask everyone to pay attention to safety. I think the people behind the scenes are not limited to Pete."

Seeing everyone nod, she continued, "Okay, let's talk about the business you are responsible for. I think maybe we should try to avoid gathering together recently. In addition, try to suspend external business and other unimportant matters. I think we need to deal with our own urgent matters first."

The middle-aged man looked at Mrs. Hareton in surprise: "Including election campaign?"

Mrs. Hareton: "Yes, suspend external business. I think our internal affairs will be more troublesome. Let's get started, everyone."

An emergency meeting was about to end, and Mrs. Hareton was able to observe everyone present. After they all finished reporting, Mrs. Hareton asked the bodyguard to turn off the video and then asked, "Did you find anything? Among them?"

The bodyguard shook his head: "I'm sorry, I don't have any idea, I can't tell them apart."

Mrs. Hareton waved her hand to let him leave, and leaned against the head of the bed to recall what she had seen before. Now she couldn't be sure whether there was a traitor among the people present. She had shown in the video that she was in her room, and she believed that they should be able to judge that she was in the manor, and maybe they could get something this time.

　I'm sorry, it's really difficult to insert the plot and connect it to my previous plan, so it took some time. I will try my best to adjust the subsequent arrangements so as not to waste time. It's just that the updates in the next two days will not be regular. If there is no update at noon, I will definitely update in the evening.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)