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THAT SAME EVENING, THE FOURTH of November, 2017, the Four Seasons Hotel, Brashner sat alone at the bar that evening, drinking a Penicillin, which, as he’d expected in a Texas venue, he’d had to instruct the bartender how to make. Brashner had just learned in a text from Sanchez that the deal was signed. He felt good. His visit to Houston was a success. During the meeting in Reid’s office with Will Baines and the Larkin woman, he’d successfully made his point that the deal was in jeopardy. All the posturing that Baines and Larkin had done was only face-saving, he was sure. Now he would be justified to claim to Ben Lufkin that his intervention had turned the transaction to success instead of failure.
After the meeting with Reid on Friday, he’d returned to the hotel to get his suitcase
