Spider Hunting by K.J. McGillick - Book Blitz
Spider
Hunting
It’s never what it seems.
A murder of a high-profile law partner on a Manhattan street
should have made the front page of the news. And yet it didn’t. Drew Bradley’s
murder was treated as just another senseless crime and relegated to page four
of the evening edition. But what if the press had been privy to the fact that
the murder was actually an assassination?
As the partners at Lannister and Stewart scramble to fill the
vacuum left by Drew Bradley’s sudden death, Asia Blythe, a rising star in the
firm is offered his coveted position. But this golden opportunity that brings
with it power, prestige, and unlimited financial rewards demands adherence to a
code. A code of allegiance to the firm with no exceptions. Catapulted into the
world of genetically modified designer babies and state-sponsored espionage, is
Asia prepared to deal with the intrigues of a world that will threaten her life
and shatter her illusions?
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Excerpt
The
bank, Drew chose to use for the monetary transaction, was located in the
British Virgin Islands. What I knew about the Virgin Islands you could fit in a
thimble. However, I recalled from a tax course, the Islands were a well-used
tax haven. The BVI had no tax treaties with other nation, thus protecting the
financial privacy of bank account holders. This banking system was one of the
few that assured depositors that liquid funds were available at any time. I
suppose I could see how this might benefit both parties if it was a large or
complicated transaction. But still, I shied away from anything to do with tax
havens. The IRS was known to seek out and audit users, not a pleasant
experience.
The
next set of documents, at the core of the matter, revealed Drew had started the
process to set up a corporation for Dr. Ling in the Netherlands under the name
of Genesis LLC. Why the Netherlands? And wasn’t this some type of
conflict of interest if we represented both the party offering a service and
one receiving it? Well, this was a real curveball. Add to that I
had no experience with setting up an international corporation; and I wondered
if Ian realized how much still needed to be completed. I clicked my pen and
added that to my list of to-dos.
The
service which Dr. Ling provided under the Genesis LLC was generically
termed “a medical procedure.” This procedure was to be completed in two phases.
The first part of the procedure was slated to take place in China. Then, four
weeks later, the clients would fly to Mexico, stay three days, and return home.
The fee was set at five hundred thousand dollars. Five. Hundred.
Thousand. Dollars. Good Lord! What type of procedure, even experimental,
would call for that type of fee structure? Did these people have that type of
cash on hand? No wonder we were in conference room C.
And
here was a partial answer. It was a memo Drew had dictated only last week. It
appeared that the Millers owned a work of art that they were prepared to sell
to fund this procedure. Drew had taken the initial steps to contact an art
dealer, Grigory Petrov, who had committed to purchase the painting. Okay, so
now yet another party was involved, a middleman.
As
far as I could tell, the painting would be a straight sales transaction between
the Millers and Grigory Petrov. An account was to be activated for Grigory
Petrov in a Panamanian bank where the funds for the painting would be
deposited. Those Panamanian funds would be transferred to the BVI account on
behalf of the Millers. Once the medical procedure was completed and the Millers
returned home, then the BVI funds would be transferred to a Genesis LLC account.
From there, within twenty-four hours, the funds in the Genesis LLC would
be disbursed to four other banks.
I
had my work cut out for me. This would not be a walk in the park. As my notepad
started to fill with “to-dos,” suddenly even a month seemed like too short a
time to make sure every “t” was crossed and every “i” dotted.
Author Bio –
K. J.
McGillick was born in New York and once she started to walk she never stopped
running. But that's what New Yorker's do. Right? A Registered Nurse, a lawyer
now author.
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