The first transfer, dated fourteen months back, was for twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

The transfers got steadily bigger every month, ending with a single forty-five-thousand-dollar payout processed five days before David got his overseas deployment orders.

I added the figures down the right-hand column on the solar calculator sitting on the desk.

The final total came to three hundred eighty thousand dollars.

Julian had produced fake invoices for seventy-five thousand gallons of diesel fuel and eight mobile generator units that had never been built or delivered.

On the next page, David had clipped a yellow legal pad sheet with his first audit notes written in blue ink.