THE ALERT arrived just after eight o'clock on a Thursday morning.
Sophie had barely settled into her office at Keller Capital when a secure notification appeared on her laptop. It originated from Lucien's international cyber intelligence team, the same group that had been tracing suspicious cryptocurrency transactions since the hidden administrator account led them to Greece.
She clicked the encrypted file open.
A map of Southeast Asia and Europe filled the screen, dotted with dozens of blinking markers connected by thin red lines.
Lucien stepped into her office carrying two cups of coffee. One look at her expression was enough to tell him something had changed.
“What happened?”
Without taking her eyes off the monitor, Sophie rotated the laptop toward him. “I think we just found the
