CHAPTER 45He’s what?” Kira stared at Jim as she settled down with her bowl of chicken and dumplings in a quiet corner of the café. It was well past lunchtime, and most of the patrons were staying in the front part of the café and ordering carry-out, so Kira and Jim had found a seat toward the back where they could talk. “Spaz can’t be dead. I know he’s not.”
“My partner went up to the place where Tagura lived. The family he rented from was murdered and all his equipment was smashed. The Secret Service has been called in and they’re trying to retrieve the data off the hard drives, but whoever did this was good.”
“They wiped the disks?”
“No, they smashed them to bits. All we’ve got are fragments, which makes the chance of piecing everything together virtually nil. And they found some biza
