Chapter 39“YOU SHOULD have seen him,” Jane said. “He yelled, he whispered. He broke the guy down. He blamed him for everything that's happened.”
“Then why did he let him go?” asked Linda.
“Breaking news in the morning will focus on his fraudulent investments. His customers will tear him apart. And he will stand trial for that.”
“Do we have the names?”
“Every law enforcement agency in the world will be looking for the rest of them. What's weird is that no one's ever heard of Thomas Richter. We have some digging to do.”
Fritz said, “I still don't understand the biggest question. Why?”
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TWO HOURS BEFORE sunrise, an annoying buzz woke the man from troubled slumber.
“Do you know who this is?”
“I do,” said Thomas Richter.
“You have about ten minutes. Atkinson talked. You have opti
