The file was heavy in his hands, though it wasn’t paper that weighed it down. It was ruined.

Mateo Navarro sat in his study, the city glittering beyond the windows, the silence of the penthouse broken only by the faint hum of air-conditioning. Before him lay a thick folder bound in black leather and a laptop screen glowing with stolen fragments of a man’s life. The investigator had been thorough; the hackers, efficient. Every corner of Liam Reyes’s world was laid bare—debts, contracts, ...