The list of actual visitors he received was the next thing Leah studied. The most likely go-between for a federal prisoner would be a relative, the closer the better.

The brothers were Istvan, Sandor, and Gyorgy, and the sisters were Viktoria and Dorina. The sisters had never visited him in Beaumont Penitentiary, and never visited him in Weldonville either. Maybe they didn’t approve.

She scrolled down the list slowly. His parents had visited him three times a year at Beaumont, when they’d still lived in Buffalo. It wouldn’t be efficient for them to carry messages or job orders from Viktor to some remnant of his organization at four-month intervals. It had to be someone else.

Leah scrolled farther down the list. Istvan never visited. Sandor came twice, once in Beaumont and once in Weldonville. Gyorgy came once, to Beaumont.

So much for the siblings, she thought. What about his lawyer?

She came three times during the Beaumont years. The notation on the record said it was to confer about his appeal. The appeal failed in his third year, and there were no visits from her after that.

The cousins, then, she thought. There’s nobody else. Of course he could have been bullshitting about still being able to get people new identities. But none of the twelve had been caught, and that meant they all had acceptable identification from somewhere.

She decided to begin with the Halasz cousins. She scrolled to the end. No. None of them ever came. The Varga cousins then. The Varga cousins were named Denes, Attila, and Regina.

Regina came a few times while Panko was in Beaumont, Texas. She gave her address as Houston. How far was that? She checked her laptop. About ninety miles. That was close enough.

Leah went back to the visitor list. Regina saw him about once a month in Beaumont, but it wasn’t a regular routine. She came on random days of the week. He could have called her when he had information to send out about a customer.

She had visited Weldonville prison too, after he was transferred. She came about as often as she had to Beaumont at first, but then more often near the end. She gave an address in Denver. She had to be the go-between. Neither of her brothers ever visited Viktor.

Leah began using the common search engines to find the addresses of the Vargas. Regina was not listed anywhere, but Denes and Attila were easy. They both lived in the town of Orchard Park, southeast of Buffalo, in large houses set far back from highways. When Leah found the addresses and looked at them on Google Street View and Google Earth, she began to pack equipment for her visit.