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."' "Not me kind you want," Bosch said."I still have questions about all of this Internet stuff.""What are they?" Rider said."If I can't answer, one of the O'Connors can.""No, not technical questions.Logic questions.I still don't understand how and why this stuff is still available for us to look at.I understand what you said about die users all being pedophiles and their seeming feeling of safety, but now we have Elias dead.If they killed him, why the hell didn't they at least move to a new gateway?""Maybe they are in the process of trying to do just that Elias hasn't been dead forty-eight hours.""And what about Kincaid? We just told him we are reopening the case.Whether he was in danger of exposure or not, it seems he would have gotten on the computer the minute we left and either contacted the site administrator or tried to crash the site and those pictures himself.""Again, maybe it's in process.And even if it is, it's too AN6ELS FLIGHT 327late.The O'Connors backed everything onto a Zip drive.They can crash the site but we still have it.We'll be able to trace every IP address and take down every one of those people -- if you consider them people."Again the fervor and anger in her voice made Bosch wonder if something about what she had seen on the web site had touched something personal, something deep inside."So where do we go from here?" he asked."Search warrants?""Yep," Rider said."And we bring in the Kincaids.Fuck Their big mansion on the hill.We have enough already to bring them in for questioning on the child abuse.We separate them and sweat them in the rooms.We go for the wife and get a confession.Get her to waive spousal privilege and give us her husband, that rat bastard.""You're talking about a very powerful and politically connected family.""Don't tell me you're afraid of the car czar."Bosch checked her look to make sure she was kidding."I'm afraid of moving too fast and blowing it.We've got nothing that directly links anybody to Stacey Kincaid or Howard Elias.If we bring mom down here and don't turn her, then we watch the car czar drive away.That's what I'm afraid of, okay?"Rider nodded."She's dying to be turned," Edgar said."Why else send those notes to Elias?"Bosch put his elbows on the desk and washed his face with his hands as he thought about things.He had to make a decision."What about Charlotte's Web Site?" he asked, his face still covered by his hands."What do we do with that?" 328 Michael Connelly"We give that to Inglert and the O'Connors," Rider said."They'll jump all over it.Like I said, they'll be able to trace the good guy list to the users.They'll identify them and f take them down.We're talking multiple arrests of an Internet pedophile ring.That's just for starters.The DA might want to try to link them all to the homicides.""They're probably all over the country," Edgar said."Not just L.A.""They might be all over the world but it won't matter.Our people will work with the bureau on it."More silence passed by and Bosch finally dropped his hands to the desk.He'd made his decision."Okay," he said."You two stay here and work on the search warrants.I want them ready to go tonight, in case we decide to move.We want all weapons, computer equipment -- you know what to do.I want warrants for the old house, which they still own, as well as the new house, all cars and Kincaid's office.Also, Jerry, see what you can find out about the security guy.""D.C.Richter, will do.What --""In fact, on the warrants, write up one for his car.""What's the PC?" Rider asked.Bosch thought a moment He knew what he wanted but he needed a legal means of getting there."Just say that as Kincaid's director of security it is believed that his vehicle may have been used in the commission of crimes relating to Stacey Kincaid.""That's not probable cause, Harry." "We stick the warrant in with the other ones," he said."Maybe the judge won't care after he's read what is in them.In fact, check the judge list.Let's take these to a woman."Rider smiled and said, "Aren't we sly?" ANGELS FLIGHT 329"What are you going to be doing, Harry?" Edgar asked."I'm going downtown to talk to Irving and Lindell, tell them what we got and see how they want to play it"Bosch looked at Rider and now saw disappointment"Harry, this isn't like you," she said."You know that if you go to Irving he'll take the conservative route.He won't let us move until we've nailed down every possibility."Bosch nodded and said, "Normally, that would be true.But these aren't normal times.He wants to prevent the city from burning.Going with this, and going fast, might be the way.Irving's smart enough to see that.""You have too much faith in human nature," she said."What are you talking about?""The best way of cooling this city off is to arrest a cop.Irving's already down there with Sheehan in the box.He isn't going to want to hear this, Harry.""You think that if you arrest the car czar and say he did Elias that everybody will believe you and be cool," Edgar added."You don't understand.There are people out there who need this to be a cop and they won't listen to anything else
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