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The effect of the Chief’s strategy was immediate and dramatic. Using the same methods which had trapped Marks, Tony, and Piers Tremain, within two months they had surveillance on four crucial area controllers of the system. Each area controller was deliberately targeted at a point somewhat central to the theoretical ‘regions’ proposed by the Chief. To prove his theory, each area controller would sooner or later make contact with his own completely separate (regional) controller. If this happened, it would show that there were at least four more ‘arms’ of the system at work. If abnormal fraudulent activity carried on after the elimination of these ‘arms’, then it would seem to prove the existence of yet more.

Prior to the awaited swoop on the area controllers and their contacts, the team held a strategy meeting to ensure that no stone was left unturned, and more to the point, to try and avoid egg landing on their faces again as in the Tremain debacle.