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. "Yes, I found him. The bureau lied to you. They knew where he was all along. They know where he is."
Xris sat very still. LED lights flashed, tiny beeps and clicks ran up and down his cybernetic ann, indicating a systems check. One of the lights flared red instead of the usual yellow and green. Xris made a minor adjustment without thinking about it.
"That doesn't surprise me," he said after a moment. "For someone to disappear that completely, he'd had to have had help. But if he was on the take--"
"All the better. Gave the bureau leverage. Here's what we were able to find out. About nine months after the explosion, while you were in the hospital, the bureau cracked a big case--one of their biggest ever. They broke up the Hung, the largest crime syndicate in the inner part of the galaxy. One of their undercover agents had infiltrated the Hung's organization, raided their computers, probed their files, discovered everything about them. Contacts, bribes to government officials, tax evasion schemes, money laundering, phony corporations, dealings with the Corasians--he found out everything. Not only did this infiltrator raid their files, he made a few 'adjustments,' mined them financially. That hurt the organization worse than their leaders doing prison time."
"Computers," said Xris. "Rowan."
"Right. He spent months patiently worming his way into the system, burrowing deeper and deeper, crawling through layer after layer
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