75Reality outpaced Tommy Tanner’s prediction that things would happen fast. Marshall Rupert’s meeting with Gregor Nazyr tripped alarms throughout the Bureau resulting in a directive to take both men into custody immediately. Almost simultaneously, a body found hidden behind a gaggle of trees in Manhattan’s Battery Park was identified as the man who impersonated a security guard at the building where Tanner’s library friend worked.
Los Angeles Agent Michael Alvarez got into the car with a beverage in each hand and a fast food bag in his teeth. His partner relieved him of a coffee and peered out her halfway open window at a sushi restaurant across the street.
“Let’s drag him out and get something decent to eat,” Alvarez said a moment before taking a large bite from a cheeseburger.
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