Lawrence Hackett leaned on the windowsill.
“You’re telling me two of the six have failed – two foolproof Mastermind projects have bitten the dust? It’s bitterly disappointing. This is going to be the worst result in the competition’s history.” He looked down at the streets below and the colorful parade of umbrellas as they crossed the street at every light change.
“Sloppy, disappointing, unprofessional, uncreative!” He turned back to the boardroom table taking in the directors sitting around it.
“Richard, what happened in Tokyo?”
Richard Sinclair opened his file.
“Truly, you wouldn’t read about it,” he started. “The project team entered the I.T. area according to plan, disarmed and created a duplicate main server in a matter of seconds, downloaded all the bank’s major clients’ informa
