“Your attorneys are currently being served with grand jury subpoenas, Mr.

Vance,” she replied, smoothly.

“And as of six o’clock this morning, federal marshals executed a seizure order on all domestic and offshore accounts linked to the Vance Family Trust.” And I watched the words offshore accounts land on Julian, watched him understand, in that instant, the full scope of what was known, because those offshore accounts were the deepest secret of the whole scheme, the hidden heart of it, and the fact that a federal agent was announcing them into a microphone meant that everything was known, all of it, the entire structure I had traced through eight hundred pages.

Tessa let out a sharp, theatrical gasp, and clutched her pearl necklace, and cried out, “This is an outrage!