The Kill Room (Lincoln Rhyme 10)

"Translate these headlines." Gesturing to the Spanish-language articles de la Rua had written.

For another hour they went through the stories, Rhyme asking questions, which Pulaski translated quickly and with precision.

Finally, Rhyme gazed up at the whiteboards.

Robert Moreno Homicide

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Crime Scene 1. Suite 1200, South Cove Inn, New Providence Island, Bahamas.

May 9.

Victim 1: Robert Moreno. COD: Single gunshot wound to chest.

Supplemental information: Moreno, 38, U.S. citizen, expatriate, living in Venezuela. Vehemently anti-American. Nickname: "the Messenger of Truth." Determined that "disappear into thin air" and "blowing them up" NOT terrorism references.

Shoes contained fibers associated with carpet in hotel corridor, dirt from hotel entryway, also crude oil.

Clothing contained traces of breakfast: pastry flakes, jam and bacon, also crude oil.

Spent three days in NYC, April 30-May 2. May 1, used Elite Limousine.

Driver Tash Farada. (Regular driver Vlad Nikolov was sick. Trying to locate. Prob. homicide.)

Closed accounts at American Independent Bank and Trust, prob. other banks too.

Drove around city with interpreter Lydia Foster (killed by Unsub 516).

Reason for anti-U.S. feelings: best friend killed by U.S. troops in Panama invasion, 1989.

Moreno's last trip to U.S. Never would return.

Meeting in Wall Street. No record of terrorist investigations in area.

Met with unknown individuals at Russian, UAE (Dubai) charities and Brazilian consulate.

Met with Henry Cross, head of Classrooms for the Americas. Reported that Moreno met with other charities, but doesn't know which. Man following Moreno, white and "tough looking." Private jet tailing Moreno? Blue color. Checking for identification. No leads.

Victim 2: Eduardo de la Rua. COD: Loss of blood. Lacerations from knife wounds.

Supplemental information: Journalist, interviewing Moreno. Born Puerto Rico, living in Argentina.

Camera, tape recorder, gold pen, notebooks missing.

Shoes contained fibers associated with carpet in hotel corridor, dirt from hotel entryway.

Clothing contained traces of breakfast: allspice and pepper sauce.

Victim 3: Simon Flores. COD: Loss of blood. Lacerations from knife wounds.

Supplemental information: Moreno's bodyguard. Brazilian national, living in Venezuela.

Rolex watch, Oakley sunglasses missing.

Shoes contained fibers associated with carpet in hotel corridor, dirt from hotel entryway, also crude oil.

Clothing contained traces of breakfast: pastry flakes, jam and bacon, also crude oil and cigarette ash.