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JAMES PATTERSON

"Where, exactly?" a producer asks.
"He didn't say, exactly," an intern replies. "He said that a very rich man was involved."
"Who?"
"Didn't say."
"Did he leave a call-back number?"
"No. The kid sounded really young. Fourteen, fifteen years old."
The producer thinks for a moment, makes a few scratches in his dog-eared notepad.
"Okay," he says. "I'm not sure what we can do with that for the moment."
At some point, some enterprising journalist will put enough pieces together to get a sense of the picture. Sooner or later, someone will talk. Maybe a parent. Maybe a cop's girlfriend gets giddy at lunch. The girlfriend's girlfriend mentions it to her husband, who says something to a golfing buddy in turn. Maybe the golfing buddy knows a reporter.
Or maybe some lawyer goes off the rez, blitzed off those martinis they serve at the Palm Beach Grill.
Sooner or later, there's always talk. At that point, Chief Reiter's job will get much, much harder—with Epstein on one side, the press on the other, and the chief taking flak from all sides. But right now, two months into Reiter's investigation, the press is still speaking in whispers.
Right now, Reiter wants to keep it that way.
And, in the meantime, new pieces of the puzzle keep falling into place.

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