"Casey, please. Nothing against you. I trust you but I don't know your contacts. I have a friend I went to college with who's in Homeland Security now. We've kept in touch and I'd feel secure with him."

"And you don't think he's being paid off?"

He shook his head. "No. They invented the word honest for Max. But I want to cross every T and dot every I before I call him."

"Okay, then. We have a plan." She finished the last dregs of the cold coffee and set the mug on the ...