Chapter Nine
Contract
Former Federal Investigator Jean Groff wasted little time once she obtained the contract she specified from Lucy’s father. Her plan was simple. Initially, all she wanted to do was retrace Lucy’s trail and see what, if anything, caught her attention in terms of the unusual. But she arrived in Amsterdam having observed nothing new and realized that she would need to go at this a different way. When she gained access to the surveillance tapes from the Amsterdam train terminal, she realized that if the girl had in fact been taken from the train, it was unlikely that she would have been caught on tape. The only thing that stood out as unusual to her, as she reviewed the tapes for the third time, was the incongruence of the small German band of four young men and a woman
