What Damian had seen from inside the Wilder Dynamics research division was this: Nolan Kingsley had been running a parallel intelligence operation for at least four months.
Not obviously. Not loudly. Nolan was too precise for either. He had identified three individuals within the Wilder-Kingsley combined organization who had access to sensitive strategic documents — acquisition timelines, the Voss merger terms, the overseas division funding records — and had been receiving monthly briefings from each of them through a series of encrypted channels that Nolan had been careful to route through enough layers that Tyler's monitoring software had flagged anomalies but never traced the destination. Damian had stumbled onto it not through intelligence work but through a coincidence that the most
