Sonja regarded Rod and noticed he was staring at the flat-screen, where Joanne Flack looked back at him with a half-smile. She was pretty, but her eyes were African, a little lost, hardened with sorrow. Sonja had seen those eyes, every morning. ‘You sound like you know her.’
Rod watched the screen a couple of beats longer, then adjusted his glasses yet again and looked from Sonja to Jed, and back to Sonja. ‘Yes.’
Jed opened the thick file in front of him. ‘Joanne Flack was a person of interest in an operation mounted by the FBI back in 1998. She was the subject of surveillance and investigation in connection to an international cycad smuggling ring. Operation Green Thumb resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of eight individuals from South Africa, Australia and the United States. A pro
