Kessler's cooperation opened doors that two years of patient investigation hadn't managed to unlock. Within a week, Elena's team had a working profile on the man who called himself Grier, though everyone understood that name was almost certainly false.
"Facial recognition matched him against three different aliases," Priya reported during their strategy session. "Same man, different names, appearing at investor meetings and academic conferences across four continents over the past six years."
"Any real identity underneath all those aliases?" Elena asked.
"Working on it," Priya said. "Whoever built his cover identities knew what they were doing. Layered, consistent, expensive. Not the kind of thing an individual researcher builds alone."
Marcus studied the compiled photographs, a nondes
