Barry spent the next seventy-two hours investigating his father with the help of Rachel Torres and Isabella. What they discovered was both fascinating and terrifying. Thomas Chen had been born in Taiwan, the son of a diplomat and a mathematician. He had shown exceptional intelligence from an early age and had been recruited by American intelligence agencies at the age of eighteen.
By twenty-five, Thomas Chen had worked his way into a position of significant power within the CIA. By thirty, he had become disillusioned with how the agency operated. He believed that intelligence organizations were too bound by bureaucracy, too slow to act, and too willing to sacrifice innocent people for the sake of national security.
So Thomas did something unprecedented. He created a private intelligence
