CHAPTER 7 — THE FINAL WITNESS
The government prepared its largest trafficking and corruption trial in state history.
Everything depended on one witness.
Sophie.
The night before testimony...
the courthouse lost power.
Backup generators failed.
Security cameras went black.
Someone had planned every second.
An assassin entered through the underground parking garage disguised as a federal marshal.
He reached Sophie's safe room.
Opened the door.
Raised a suppressed pistol.
Before he fired...
another gunshot echoed.
The assassin collapsed.
Behind him stood Arthur Bennett's widow.
Seventy-three years old.
Holding her late husband's revolver.
"I promised Arthur," she whispered.
"No more children."
Inside the assassin's pocket...
investigators found one photograph.
Not Sophie.
Not Mara.
Judge Henderson.
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The conspiracy hadn't planned to silence the witness.
They intended to erase every person capable of exposing the network.
