Over the years, he’d had several partners, but none had stayed more than a year or two. To move up the promotional ladder in the FBI you needed to handle high-profile cases, and those were found in big cities like Dallas, Los Angeles, and New York. To a young agent, the reservation was the equivalent of a career death sentence. Coordinating county’s SWAT and getting the permissions necessary for Ella to take part in the Bureau-directed operation took time—and, more importantly, a hefty dose of patience. “Do we know for sure that he’s there?” Ella asked Blalock. Nothing could move forward without first confirming Perry was present at the location. “The first address we attributed to him was a phony, so was the second, and now we’re working on the third. But it looks promising. MVD just sent his vehicle registration tags to that address, though his current driver’s license lists one of the other two locations. County’s using Google to check the layout right now for a tactical plan, but I think we need to take a real-time look for ourselves.” He stood, and she joined him at the door.
