Slipped in the shower. Valentine has pizza downstairs. You might want to hurry before he finishes it. Does the DA know? Figure? Thats a pessimistic way to look at it, Stone said. He had to talk to people to find the sender of the weird-ass email, because it apparently could not be done with computer keys and a server. For Devine, it was actually refreshing to see that not every single problem today was solvable by technology alone. Sometimes a little shoe leather and the semblance of a personality and a few well-formed questions might just do what artificially intelligent thinking and petabytes of data hovering in fake clouds couldnt. But the email was tied to Ewess murder, which had to be tied to whatever nefarious things were going on at Cowl. And this was exactly what Emerson Campbell had told him to work on in order to stay out of a military prison. His marching orders couldnt be clearer. I dont want to go back to Santa Fe, if this guy is my neighbor, she said. I think Id feel safer with you. And the Eagles. Just... just forget it. Its over and done with. Its not like I havent screwed the guy before. It’s the only reason he has me around. You told me there was a chance he might be alive. A tiny chance, I think you said. What happened, did you get a tip? Do you know how many calls he made? Change all our computer passwords, he said. Word on the street is your firm is interested in funding Hummingbirds next investment round. Shes not going to shoot you, Dino said. Shes dead. Of course. We speculated as to just who it might be. Herbert thought it might be either Cleve Rector or Ezekiel Elkins. He wouldnt have put it past either one of them to have manipulated things in that way, so that trouble could have been stirred up. Right away? Yes. I made a mistake, I said. I didnt know how serious it was. Mix wasnt the first married man youd busted up with..