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    “Why?”
    “We’ve never found one of his sites in the United States. When we found Meghan, it was on a small island near Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada. But if that’s the case, the sun would already have risen. He used a private, secluded estate on a Caribbean island at one point, but we raided it and seized all his property.”
    “So Lucy’s right? She’s on an island?”
    Peterson nodded. “Very likely.”
    “But we still know next to nothing,” Patrick mumbled, clicking frenetically on his keyboard.
    “We know she’s on the West Coast, which is more than we knew five minutes ago,” Dillon said.
    “I found her,” Patrick said.
    “Lucy?” Dillon and Peterson said simultaneously.
    “Kate Donovan. At least I’ve isolated her general area. Mexico, near the west Texas border. A couple hours out of Hidalgo, in the mountains, north of Monterrey. But she went off-line as soon as you downloaded the feed.”
    Peterson looked at the map. “Dammit, that area is full of rebels, drug smugglers, gunrunners. We can get into Monterrey, but that means a couple hours’ detour. Direct? Virtually impossible.”
    Dillon stared at Patrick. “I can find her.”
    Patrick shook his head, mixed emotions crossing his boyish face. “Don’t.”
    “I have to. For Lucy. Just get me a more accurate location by the time Jack calls back.”
    “He might not even call,” said Patrick.
    “He’ll call me,” Dillon insisted.
    “Who’s Jack?” Peterson asked.
    “Our brother,” Patrick said. “Jack is Dillon’s twin.”
    “Another Kincaid?” Peterson mumbled.
     
    Jack returned Dillon’s call thirty minutes later.
    “Hello, Jack,” Dillon answered.
    “What’s wrong?” Jack asked without preamble. They hadn’t seen or spoken to each other in eleven years, but Jack got right to the point.
    Dillon didn’t waste time. “Lucy has been kidnapped. I need your help finding an ex-FBI agent who’s hiding out in the eastern Mexican mountains.”
    “Are you sure? Lucy’s an adult. Maybe she just walked.”
    “If you have an Internet connection, I can send you the feed where she’s half naked and tied to the floor.” Dillon’s voice vibrated with anger. Jack had gone off to do his own thing twenty years ago and came home only for funerals. He didn’t know Lucy, and he wanted to believe she had just left the family without a word?
    “Of course I’m sure she’s been kidnapped.” Dillon suppressed the complex emotions that talking with his brother Jack inevitably stirred. “The FBI has a task force in place. Her kidnapper has done this before. And if we don’t find her in forty-three hours, she’ll be dead. Murdered live on the Internet. Do you think I would call you if it weren’t a life-or-death emergency? If I didn’t think you might be in a position to help?”
    “And you want me to track this FBI agent down why?”
    “She has some sort of compound where she’s been tracking this killer for the last couple of years. She has her own issues with the FBI and won’t come back voluntarily.”
    “So you want me to kidnap her and bring her to you?”
    “No. I want you to bring me to her. She’s on a mountain, about an hour north of Monterrey, which according to the FBI is dangerous territory.”
    “Dangerous is an understatement,” Jack said. “I’m not bringing you anywhere. I’ll find the agent myself and compel her to return.”
    Dillon said, “No, Jack. You’ll bring both me and Patrick to her. She has computer files we need and the ability to find Lucy. She thinks she can do it on her own, but I think our killer might just want her to find him, that he might leak her information to trap her. And Lucy is his bait.”
    “Why do you care about this renegade FBI agent? Who cares about the damn feds? Nothing but backstabbing bureaucrats with guns. I’ll help you find Lucy. I have friends all over the world.”
    The quiet arrogant confidence in Jack’s voice was typical.
    “No,”