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There was no way to stay in the parking lot of the steak restaurant, so Jack called Jubal and asked him to notify the local FBI office to cooperate with the police station to clean the parking lot. The two cars continued to drive towards New York.

It was not until they were almost in downtown New Haven that they found a 24-hour roadside restaurant to fill their stomachs. There was a motel next door to the restaurant.

This time Jack learned his lesson, and when he picked a room, he chose a location several rooms away from Reacher, so he could finally avoid hearing the evil sound.

In fact, Reacher is relatively reserved, but Dixon, a genuine American girl, doesn't care much about others. It may be that she has been coveting someone for too long, and finally got what she wanted, and she will not stop until she has eaten to her heart's content.

The next morning, everyone split up. O'Donnell was the driver of the Cayenne and took Jack and Reacher home first.

It was clear from his house that this guy had made a lot of money from his previous dirty tricks in Washington. Not everyone could afford a two-story brick house around Washington, DC.

O'Donnell's wife looks to be less than 30 years old. She has black hair and the slim figure typical of the wealthy class in the United States. You can't tell at all that she is already the mother of two little boys of six or seven years old.

Jack and Reacher, each holding a bottle of beer, stared blankly at the two little brats chasing and fighting around the house.

Of course the children didn't know what was going on, but O'Donnell's wife's behavior was quite impressive. When she heard her husband's evasive words asking her to take the children to North Carolina for two days, she immediately packed up her things without saying a word.

"Do you have the adrenaline syringe?" O'Donnell stuffed a few stuffed toys into the small school bag.

"And asthma spray, take them all." The woman quickly stuffed a suitcase full of things.

O'Donnell warned with some concern, "Take your anonymous phone with you, don't contact anyone, don't contact your parents, and most importantly, don't contact your sister, she posts everything on Facebook.

When you get to Asheville, stay in downtown. There are a lot of tourists there at this time. Try to blend in. Use cash instead of credit cards. ”

"I know the rules." After O'Donnell's wife finished packing her things, she looked at her husband seriously and said, "On a scale of one to ten, how bad is this situation?"

O'Donnell said soothingly with a twinkle in his eyes, "You'll be fine. We're just acting out of caution."

Seeing his wife staring at him intently, he sighed, "Okay, for you guys, it's 4 points at most."

"What about you?" the woman asked softly. It was obvious that what she cared about most was not herself and the children.

"We are dealing with some very bad villains, but they have exhausted all their means by now, and I have these friends around me, so nothing will happen, and it will be over in a few days at most," O'Donnell assured.

"Be sure to be safe, for me and the children." The woman kissed O'Donnell on the face and shouted to the two naughty children to go upstairs to pack their clothes.

"She didn't seem panicked at all and accepted it all very calmly." Reacher probably understood why a certain former playboy was being taken advantage of.

"She's the daughter of an emergency room nurse manager and a fire captain. She's very strong," O'Donnell said with a pride that was hard to conceal.

"Smart, beautiful, brave and strong, so why would a woman like this marry you? Even if you lose the bet, you still need the beauty to save the hero?" Jack teased.

Reacher opened another bottle of beer and drank it slowly. "I thought you would die in agony as your lower body rotted away, and then a bunch of ex-girlfriends would fight over your 04 Mazda."

O'Donnell raised his middle finger to each of them. "I just finally met the right person. And you, Jack, are you sure you have the right to laugh at me?"

Jack looked at Reacher angrily, and when he saw him turning his face away in embarrassment, he knew that this guy must have betrayed him. Before, O'Donnell only regarded Jiejie as his girlfriend.

But he quickly found an excuse for himself, "Actually, I'm the same as you, I'm just luckier. I've met more right girls, and I don't want to disappoint them."

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"As you have suggested, DHS has been focusing on finding the mysterious 'AM' who we suspect was involved in the murder of a Pennsylvania State Trooper last night."

The two agents who received Jack and Reacher in the DHS office were still the same two agents who had come to New York with Reacher's brother Joey. Jack still remembered that the older one was called Omar Karim.

Agent Karim continued, "The state trooper stopped a car with a Colorado license plate and was killed while reporting the driver's identity. The murderer stabbed her heart with a precise knife."

"Why do you suspect that the murderer of this state trooper is related to 'AM'? Did the law enforcement camera capture anything?" Jack asked curiously.

Agent Karim shook his head regretfully. "We didn't capture anything. It was late at night and there were no witnesses around. The murderer was very experienced and destroyed the police officer's law enforcement recorder and took away the memory card including the police car camera.

But the conscientious female police officer had already reported the driver's license information to the command center, and we found that the driver's identity matched that of a plastic surgeon who was killed in Denver, Colorado a day earlier. "

As he said this, he placed a photo in front of the two of them. In the photo was a white man with black hair, black eyes and deep facial features. He looked to be in his thirties or forties and was very handsome.

"Do you suspect that 'AM' killed this plastic surgeon who looked somewhat like him and took over his identity?" Reacher understood what he meant.

"It's not a suspicion, but almost certain." Agent Karim showed several photos of the scene. There were two dead people in the photos, the female nurse at the front desk of the clinic and the doctor himself in the office.

"Although our previous operation failed to catch the cunning 'AM', it also forced him to give up those pseudonyms that might have exposed him. He could only find a temporary alternative identity and drive to New York."

"There was no loss of cash in the clinic, and the murderer only took the deceased's driver's license? I agree with the DHS's judgment."

Jack flipped through the autopsy report and found that the fatal injuries were all on the side of the neck. The operation was very professional, with one cut through the carotid artery and trachea, leaving the victim no chance to even call for help.

They also shared the intelligence they had obtained so far, including the truth about the "Little Wings" project. Upon hearing that the case involved 650 portable air defense missiles and a transaction amount of 6500 million, the two DHS agents became excited.

"We must take immediate action to block the Denver plant and confirm the whereabouts of those missiles. 'AM' must be heading to New York to complete the final deal."

Just as Jack was wondering whether to have them call Joey Reacher and tell them that a Senator was involved, his phone suddenly rang.

The call was from Clay and Aubrey, who had gone to New Age Technologies' military plant in Denver this morning to conduct an inspection while posing as inspectors from the Defense Contract Management Agency.

They had just experienced an extremely dangerous gun battle and killed five armed gangsters, but because the vehicle they were driving was damaged, they were unable to stop a hijacked 5-wheeler container truck from leaving in time.