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Chapter 410: Hello, Nathan Walters
The former Prime Minister heard the news at supper, from Mr. Dane, who delivered it standing, with his hat in his hand.It was the third thing Dane had said that morning. The first was that Hallis had been taken care of. The second was that the girl had walked out of the holding house on her own two feet, with a fire extinguisher, and that Mr. Ellery was in a hospital with a fractured jaw and was not talking. The third thing was a name."Theodore Walters was arrested at nine-twenty this morning, Father. In the middle of the boardroom. The boy had taken the entire shadow empire out from under him in a single clause. It took fourteen minutes."The Prime Minister put down his spoon.It was a very small movement. Dane had worked for him for nineteen years, and he had seen the old man hear of a war, a death, and a betrayal by his own brother without putting down a spoon."Say it again," said the Prime Minister."The boy bought the other side of every contract, Father. Months ago. Before the
Chapter 409: Two Bodies, One Soul
At seven that evening, Nina climbed the last flight of the fire stairs to the roof of the Walters building carrying two paper cups of bad coffee.She had been awake, with short interruptions, for forty hours. She had been bathed, bandaged, fed, examined by two doctors, interviewed by Whitlock for an hour and forty minutes, and hugged by Lexi so hard that one of her stitches had popped. She had her own clothes on, a pair of grey sweatpants and a Braxton sweatshirt that Priya had brought from somewhere. She was wearing the little silver earrings. She had not taken them off.The door at the top opened onto the wind.The city was spread out all the way to the sea, in the thin gold light before dark. The harbor lay at the far end, a pale grey strip with the long bridge across it, and somewhere on that strip, a very small orange light that was probably Pier Nine. She did not look at it for long.Nathan sat on the low wall at the edge, with his feet hanging over the drop. He was in a clean w
Chapter 408: Coop Holdings
August Sterling came in carrying twelve folders and looking like a man who had waited four months for this particular morning.He was small and bald, with half-moon glasses, and he had a way of placing his papers on a table that made a noise like a judge setting down a hammer. He took the remote from the clerk without asking. He nodded politely to the head of the table, where Theodore sat in the black chair with his smile still on, and he pressed a button.The big screen on the wall lit up.It was a diagram of boxes and lines, in blue, neat and clean, like a family tree that had been through a very efficient divorce. At the top of it, in a small gold rectangle, were two words.COOP HOLDINGS.Nobody in the room said anything. Then, from halfway down the right side of the table, Fen began to cough."Is that a joke?" he said."It is a trust," said August. "Mr. Walters named it himself. He said it would make him feel better."Down at the end of the table, Nathan did not look at anyone. He
Chapter 407: The Face Of The Devil
Theodore Walters had woken at five, shaved with great care, and put on the grey suit he kept for funerals and takeovers.He stood in the mirror for a while, tying the tie. He was a handsome man, he thought, in the quiet silver way that men in his family became handsome around sixty. He had the reading glasses on their cord. He had the sad, level eyes. He had the look, he told his reflection, of a man who has been asked, very reluctantly, to carry something heavy for a family that could not carry it themselves.It was a good face. He had spent eleven years on it.He had not slept much. That was not nerves. It was more a kind of enjoyment, like a long meal being served in courses. In the last two days, the Governor had been shot, the girl taken, the boy gone to some far country with a bag and a bad cold, and the whole family had turned to Theodore like plants to a window. He had not planned the shooting. He disliked loud things. A loud thing left fingerprints, and nobody he employed was
Chapter 406: Late
The pharmacy warehouse smelled of old cardboard and cough syrup, and the roof was wet with sea fog.Nathan lay flat on the tar paper with a pair of binoculars, and Dwayne lay on one side of him and Whitlock's agent, a broad man named Ibarra, on the other. Below them the rail yard was dark. Beyond the tracks, four meters away across a narrow alley, stood a three-story concrete building with painted-over windows and a single yellow lamp above a steel door.A guard stood under the lamp, smoking. A second paced on the roof of the opposite building, a rifle slung over his shoulder. He looked bored. Nathan guessed that he had been told to be bored, and that it was the only thing the man was good at.At two fifty-one, a freight train came out of the east.It came slowly, with a long grinding roar, wagon after wagon, so loud that the loose gravel along the rails began to jump. Nathan lifted two fingers. Two of Whitlock's agents rose from behind a water tank, dragging the aluminum plank, and l
Chapter 405: The Tide
At eleven that night, the operations room on the fortieth floor of the Walters building looked like a battlefield where all the soldiers were on laptops.Priya stood at the center of it with her hair coming out of its clip and an energy drink in each hand. Whitlock was by the window on two phones at once. Dwayne sat in the corner with his jacket off, a fresh bandage on his hand from the day before, going through a list of names with a pen. Eleven screens covered the far wall. On the largest one was a map of the harbor, and on the map a small orange dot, perfectly still."It woke at four-oh-eight this afternoon," Priya said, without turning round. "Then it went quiet for six hours to save power. It wakes every ten minutes and sends one ping. It has been in the same place all night. A building on Pier Nine. Which means she has been in the same room all night, which means she is not being moved.""Not yet," Nathan said.He was standing in the middle of the room with his sleeves rolled to
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