No one can say where he went but there’s no doubt he was guilty. I did neither. xxx “We’ve acted on your report, Clarissa, at some cost to prices on the New York Stock Exchange. By then they all knew I’d had a passionate affair before discovering my so-called lover was married. We’ve met there a few times. Sex trafficking is at the core of western capitalism, Mandy.”
She needed a drink, so I took her to the pub and bought her a vodka and coke. I was on cloud nine, a state of chronic elation: I was among friends, I’d completed the investigation for Sergio and tracked the money to its sources, I was in love with Gareth, and at last I’d become Mandy’s equal in confidence and savoir faire.




















