It contained everything he needed to fulfill his responsibilities as assistant manager of research and authentication. More importantly, he was away from the big kahunas up on the library’s main office floor. His space was peaceful, comfortable . . . and private. Now it was crowded. Rizzo was working on his computer in the curve of the horseshoe desk, while Richard Johnson was to his left, engrossed in the screen of Rizzo’s second computer. Bohannon had his laptop at the small, round meeting table, and Joe was at the whiteboard. Each one had taken a different track of Dr. Schwartzman’s life and was pursuing anything that might connect the man to the scroll. Rodriguez was playing the role of quarterback—proposing relevant research portals on the Internet, cataloging each piece of information that was collected, and trying to form a picture that made sense. Thus far, they were encouraged to discover that a Dr. Elias Schwartzman was the eighth rector of Trinity Parish Episcopal Church in downtown New York City.
