But there is no amount of money on earth that can buy what walked into that rented room when I made my call.

You cannot purchase men who will cross a country for you after twenty years of silence.

That is not for sale.

It is only earned, once, in fire, and then kept, afterward, for free.

I was outgunned by those families in every currency but that one.

That one turned out to be the only currency that mattered.

Chapter 10 — The Footage

Marcus was, among his many talents, the finest data-recovery specialist I have ever known, and he had spent the years since our unit disbanded doing it entirely lawfully, as an expert witness and forensic consultant.