Chapter 12Family Connections
Paul Ferris had been busy. While Ross and Drake were enjoying the luxury of the Decker's hotel suite, the detective constable had been slaving away over a hot keyboard, as he laughingly thought it, immersed in his research into the enormous, though previously unheard of, worldwide conglomerate that was Aegis Oceanographic. Ferris had found himself fascinated by much of the information he'd unearthed. Known as The Aegis Institute, or Aegis Oceanographic, or Aegis Maritime, depending on the discipline being undertaken, the company seemed to be almost octopus-like in having arms or branches in numerous countries around the world.
The Aegis Institute for example, took in the company's corporate headquarters near Boston, Massachusetts, another major office in New
