Of course, he’d also arranged to have Mac and Conners on that flight, because he’d known if an emergency did occur, his two most trusted agents would move heaven and earth to protect them.
But that hardly balanced the debt or absolved his churning guilt.
“We have photographic evidence, culled from a surveillance satellite and magnified several thousand times, that shows four people in one of the life rafts, and two more in the water.”
Jim Austin and Miranda Adams, Mac’s and Conners’ occasional partners, had worked up thorough profiles on each of the charter’s crew and passengers. He’d read through their reports, and agreed with their conclusions. But he felt it best to tactfully paraphrase their findings.
Neither father would enjoy being reminded, in this moment of crisis, that their b
