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his professors as a pedophile.
    There were even some who said Rogan should have been hired to fix the security. Like he was some sort of white-hat vigilante.
    But she’d prove he was a criminal. She might even get a promotion to SSA. Her own squad to run. Vindication.
    Juan asked, “Do you think Lucy Kincaid is part of his scheme?”
    “Not that I know of,” Deanna admitted. “She’s been at Quantico for the last ten weeks, but she and Rogan are still involved, and I know he’s guilty.”
    “If you have proof, why hasn’t he been brought in for an interview? Or indicted? Do you have a grand jury working on this?”
    Juan’s questions were all good, too good, and Deanna hedged. “I don’t have any authority to go after Rogan right now, not unless I can connect him to Thayer. That’s where Kincaid comes in—I want her to tell me what’s going on. Either she’s a total idiot and doesn’t know what her boyfriend is up to, or she’s part of it—and either way, she shouldn’t be an FBI agent.”
    Juan scowled. “You’re right about that.”
    Deanna gained confidence. Laying out her suspicions about Rogan hadn’t helped her case with Martinez, but tying it back to Lucy Kincaid gave Deanna the bait she needed to hook him.
    “I need leverage. If I’m going to get her to turn on her boyfriend, I need to understand her. Unfortunately, her file is full of holes, redacted, or sealed.”
    This was where Deanna hoped she had played her cards right—that Juan would tell her everything he knew about Lucy Kincaid and why he had voted against her hire.
    “I’m not surprised you haven’t been able to learn anything about Kincaid,” Juan said. “My read on her is that she wouldn’t care one way or the other about financial schemes or computer hacking. Her sole purpose for being an FBI agent is to work sex crimes. She has a vendetta. She’s psychologically unstable, though she hides it very well.”
    That information was more than Deanna had expected. She pushed. “A vendetta? Why?”
    “When she was eighteen, she killed her rapist. He was unarmed. Essentially, it was vigilante violence on her part—which is almost funny, considering that she put another FBI agent in prison for allegedly orchestrating a vigilante group.”
    “Fran Buckley.” Deanna remembered the case. “I read in Kincaid’s thin file that she’d worked with Buckley for a predator watchdog group.”
    Juan nodded. “I believe that Kincaid is volatile and potentially dangerous to herself and her partner. She received little psychological counseling after her rape, and none of it on record with the FBI. Her rape was a traumatic event to be sure—it was digitally recorded and shown live on the Internet. I don’t blame her for killing her attacker—I think anyone in the same situation would have been justified. Except that when she emptied her gun into his chest, he was not a threat to her or anyone else. It was overkill.”
    “She killed him in cold blood?”
    Juan nodded, his lips pursed. “Kincaid has a master’s in criminal psychology. Her brother is a forensic shrink who is close personal friends with Dr. Vigo, who’s the one who cleared her psychologically. There are ethical and moral problems with Dr. Vigo doing the assessment. I think they conspired to rubber-stamp her acceptance because she’s this wonderchild to them. But there’s no way they can know what she will do when put in the line of fire. There’s no way to know how she’ll react. She has a history of panic attacks, but you won’t see that in her professional record. She discussed them with the panel.
    “I’ll admit,” Juan continued, “she has an impressive background with a lot to offer—just not to the FBI. We don’t need any more wild or rogue agents. Kincaid’s brother is married to Kate Donovan, who was a fugitive for five years, but suddenly, because of her connections high up in the Bureau, she’s teaching cybercrime at Quantico after a six-month