Chapter 908
"That guy was absolutely crazy. He took us 124 miles in less than 45 minutes." Cassel looked at the Eiffel Tower not far away, and then waved his fist at the taxi as it was going away.
"In France, we use the metric system, which is 200 kilometers." Jack corrected him while flipping his fingers and stuffing the business card Daniel gave him into his wallet. He hadn't watched many French movies, but he didn't expect that he could do it just after arriving here. Saw a familiar face.
Neither Cassel nor Brian spoke French. Jack used a fake ID produced by the FBI to book a large suite with three bedrooms at the Four Seasons Hotel George V in the center of Paris.
As soon as he landed in France, he turned on the anonymous mobile phone, including the positioning function, but he never received a call.
While waiting for the call, Jack first contacted China. Jubal found some clues and figured out how the three girls were sent to France.
According to FAA records, six hours after the three girls were abducted, that afternoon, a Dassault Falcon 7X private jet flew from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Brussels, Belgium.
Because the private plane did not fly directly to France, the FBI spent a lot of time investigating.
A bribed Belgian Immigration official admitted that he saw three apparently unconscious girls being helped off the plane and put into an ambulance. The officer explained that they had food poisoning, but their whereabouts after that were unknown.
The private plane belongs to a wealthy Brazilian man. According to Jubal, he most likely has nothing to do with this incident because the plane was supposed to be under maintenance.
"This doesn't make sense." Cassel's eyes widened. "Just to exchange hostages and ransom in Paris, they stole a private plane?"
It really doesn’t make sense. A Dassault Falcon 7X is worth US$45 million. To steal such a private jet and fly across the Atlantic Ocean to Paris, France, is just to extort 15 million euros.
Today, the exchange rate of the euro against the US dollar is close to 1:1. Even at its peak more than ten years ago, it was only 1:1.6. This is equivalent to driving an aircraft carrier to deal with a group of local armed forces who are so poor that they can only wear slippers.
Okay, this comparison seems reasonable again.
The CSI also gained something. Through the voiceprint analysis of the background sound of the kidnapper's phone, which included church bells and ventilation ducts, they roughly confirmed the location of the kidnapper at that time, which almost matched the IP address tracked by Justin.
Jack was quite surprised by the richness of their database. They even collected voiceprint data in Paris. Stella Bonacilla explained that they had cooperated with some well-known crime laboratories in Europe.
The NYPD, including Beckett, are also working hard. They are further digging into the background information of Roger Hansen. The anti-drug team shared information about this person and he has a girlfriend.
By the time Jack finished summarizing the current progress, another hour had passed. It was already 10 o'clock in the evening in Paris, but the phone still didn't ring.
"We can't wait any longer." Cassel's mood became irritable again.
"Of course we can't wait any longer." Jack agreed, but turned his attention to Brian, "Go to that hotel?"
The latter nodded, and then the two of them looked at Cassel in unison, with a bit of ill-intention, which frightened him into thinking and quickly raised three fingers to assure him.
"Don't knock me out again, I can promise to stay in this room!"
Jack sighed, "You can come too, but if danger occurs, you have to make sure you don't run around."
After all, this is within the city limits of Paris. The opponent should not bring out heavy firepower such as RPG. He is confident to protect Cassel. The protagonist's aura must be used when it is necessary. Maybe there will be some unexpected gains by bringing this guy with him. .
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"There are no lights, and no one can be seen from the window." Brian, pretending to be a night runner, returned to the two and said.
"They may have moved Alexis and Kim to another location after getting the ransom. There were fresh tire tracks in the underground parking lot, but not a single car was there."
Jack nodded and led the two of them into the five-story hotel building in front of them, which was closed in the name of renovation.
The first and second floors of the building are a restaurant that is still open. There are no lights above the third floor, and even the elevators are turned off.
After avoiding the careless security guard and going up to the third floor through the safety stairs, Jack listened at the safety door, took out the ski mask from his pocket and put it on, then pulled out the "Spotted Viper" and installed the silencer.
The "Spotted Viper" SR-1MP is a pure Maozi military pistol. The special pistol bullets it uses are widely used by Russian intelligence agencies, special forces and presidential guards.
The internal model name of this gun is "Victor", but the export model will have a spotted viper pattern on the sleeve, so it is called "spotted viper" in Europe and the United States.
The use of this pistol Jack somewhat confuses the public. After all, the appearance of Mao Zi intelligence personnel in Paris sounds very reasonable.
Because he didn't know the enemy's equipment level, Jack mixed 7N28 (SP-11) lead-core ordinary bullets and SP-12 expanding bullets in the magazine. In addition to the spare magazine, he also brought two loaded with 7N29 (SP-10 ) extra magazines for armor-piercing rounds.
Ordinary bullets are beyond words. The warhead of the SP-12 expansion bullet is a semi-jacketed hollow point structure. There is a white plastic bullet tip at the head and a lead core at the back. The blooming deformation effect after hitting the human body is much better than that of ordinary hollow point bullets.
Hollow point bullets are the blooming "dum-dum bullets" that were once praised by some military blind people. It is said that if they are used, they will be brought to military court. In fact, this is the most common type of ammunition in the US civilian arms market. It has a very good stopping effect on unarmored targets.
Considering that there may be a chance to deal with guys wearing bulletproof vests, Jack's extra two magazines of 7N29 (SP-10) armor-piercing bullets are prepared for them.
The design of this semi-jacketed open-point armor-piercing bullet is extremely sophisticated. The front end of the jacket is open, and there is a steel core in the middle. A polyethylene lining is wrapped between the steel core and the jacket.
When this bullet hits a lightly armored target, it will peel off the outer jacket, allowing the steel core in the middle to continue moving forward, giving it a very strong penetration ability.
According to Maozi's own test, this armor-piercing bullet can penetrate a 5mm thick steel plate at a distance of 50 meters, which is an extremely excellent performance among pistol bullets.
However, in a small space, using ammunition with too excellent armor-piercing performance is more likely to produce ricochets after penetrating an unarmored body, so Jack used this special armor-piercing pistol bullet as a backup.
It took the three of them nearly an hour to search the three floors from bottom to top. As expected, the place was empty.