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Chapter 178 The Truth

Joey Reacher recovered quickly and has been transferred from the ICU to a regular double ward. Naturally, the person in the same ward with him was Chris, who had been shot in the leg.

However, in Jack's view, there is still a gap in treatment between the two. Dana, who has not seen him for a long time, is feeding fruits to Chris by the hospital bed. In comparison, Joey, who is alone, looks much pitiful. .

The Hunters did not enter the hospital. The two old men took the two children of the Heborg family directly to a hotel not far from the hospital to rest. Charlie followed everyone into the ward.

Dana looked much more confident than before. She was dressed in black professional attire. Jack keenly observed that she was actually wearing a gun.

"Dana is now an IRS analyst and was the plenipotentiary until Director Ray King arrived."

After greeting everyone, Hannah introduced in a low voice. Jack was in a daze. How long had it been? Didn't the IRS require training when recruiting people?

"Joe!" The two Reacher brothers reunited after a long absence. Seeing his brother wearing an oxygen mask on the hospital bed, Jack Reacher no longer looked like a tough guy, and his eyes instantly turned red.

"Hey, brother." The weak Joey greeted softly.

"I didn't expect to see you here. I talked to you about Blind Blake. I just knew that you liked blues. Maybe I would visit that town one day."

Jack Reacher squatted down in front of the hospital bed like a big bear and held Joey's hand tightly.

"You should ask me for help. Have you forgotten your mother's dying instructions? You can't handle everything by yourself."

A wry smile appeared on Joey's face, "Now I can't do anything as I lie here. The rest is up to you. Help me take down the Kleiner family."

The two brothers didn't talk much. They simply talked about old times for a while and then got straight to the point.

Jack stepped forward and briefly introduced himself. Joey had been in a coma before, and this was the first official meeting between the two.

"The two ladies informed me of your purpose while taking care of me."

Joey's eyes swept over Hannah and Zoe behind him.

"I asked them to contact my colleague in the Secret Service, Molly Beth Gordon, who was coming to Atlanta with the information."

"With all due respect, there was a member of Congress behind the Kleiner family at one point in their infiltration of various law enforcement agencies."

Jack did not shy away from admitting that there must be more to Joey's accident than that. Someone who knew his identity must have tipped off Kleiner.

Joey smiled and said, "I know, but Molly is trustworthy and our relationship is very close."

Is it another office romance?

Joey, who met his brother, told everything he had investigated, and everyone finally understood the details of the Kleiner family.

Joey is the director of the Secret Service's Office of Investigations, mainly responsible for combating the counterfeiting of antiques and swords. He spent three years, through administrative orders and some related procedures, completely blocking the manufacture of counterfeit banknotes in the United States.

He didn't explain in detail, but Jack could guess that it was probably a process to control the sales of acid-free paper and trace the entire process from production to sale.

Afterwards, Joey devoted himself to the pursuit of international counterfeit banknotes.

"Unlike the hundred-dollar bills that we rarely see in China, 80% of the Dao Le in the international market are hundred-dollar bills, which are circulated through underground transactions such as D goods, weapons, and human trafficking."

“Through research conducted by me and two economics professors from Columbia University, we found that in the past ten years, nearly 10 billion dollars have flowed out of Venezuela to the world, and there has been no decrease even after I blocked the use of paper as raw material, so I did something."

Seeing Joey coughing twice, Jack Reacher quickly took a cup from the cabinet next to him, dipped a cotton swab in water, and moistened his lips.

"I never thought I would be taken care of by you one day, brother." Joey smiled bitterly and continued.

"I persuaded the higher authorities to increase funding for the Coast Guard, and they maintained strict patrols on the southeast coast for half a year. As a result, in the past six months, the shipment of counterfeit banknotes in Venezuela has almost stopped."

"After that, a group of South American mercenaries began to enter the country frequently. I followed the clues and came to the town of Margrave."

Jack nodded frequently after hearing this. This is what a smart person does to connect one link after another and make full use of the resources at hand. If the Kleiner family did not follow martial ethics in the end and just overturned the table, it is very likely that Joey would have succeeded alone. It can overturn the entire profit chain.

"So, you suspect that the place of origin of these counterfeit bills is Margrave, Georgia."

Joey nodded, "Yes, and I found out how they made the counterfeit money."

"They collected a large number of small-denomination banknotes, used a special technology to bleach the ink on them, and then reprinted them into old versions, hundred-dollar bills before the 90s. This way, they don't need to consider the security strips and can just make them old."

"Unfortunately, the truck driver who was willing to be a tainted witness and transport the counterfeit money to Florida for them was beaten to death when he met with me."

"And although I have used some means to prevent them from obtaining small-denomination banknotes from the retail industry, I don't know why, but in the past few months they seem to have found new channels."

When Jack heard this, he invited Paul Heborg's wife, Charlie, to come over. "I think she can explain the source of these new channels."

Having witnessed the previous chase and the audience just now, she fully understood the current situation. Charlie no longer concealed it and told the story of Paul being coerced and forced to cooperate with the Kleiner family to collect small-denomination banknotes through the banking industry. out.

"When you see a man nailed to a wall and castrated in front of you, you just do what they say. Paul was forced. Kleiner completely destroyed our family. "

After Charlie said everything, she was already filled with tears.

Now everything is connected in series, especially the two Jacks, who look at each other tacitly, each with a plan in mind.

Only Hannah still had some questions. She started by asking, "Then what does all this have to do with the murder of my parents and the Environmental Protection Agency investigator?"

Seeing that Joey, who had been talking for a long time and was getting weaker, was about to speak, Jack Reacher spoke for his brother.

"Sewage, cleaning ink will produce a large amount of industrial wastewater."

Jack nodded and said: "Yes, the Kleiner family first printed counterfeit banknotes in Texas. The sewage caused the river near your home to be polluted. They murdered the investigator and your parents and moved the factory to Margrave. "

Hannah gritted her teeth and remained silent, her whole body trembling with anger. Zoe held her in her arms pitifully, whispered a few words of comfort, and then asked.

"Then why is there no sewage pollution problem here? I checked the map and there isn't even a decent river or lake near here."

"The ranch, they purified the sewage." Rosko, who had been listening, suddenly realized.

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