Forty-FourTwenty-four hours later Richard Garrett received Theresa Rasmussen and Cyrus Krieg-Zuber in the office he’d commandeered and without ceremony said, “Dr. Krieg-Zuber, I’m relieving you as acting director. I don’t like the way things have been going around here.”
Krieg-Zuber’s first reaction was to bore unblinkingly into Garrett with his laser orbs, then dismiss the news as a perverse joke. When Garrett assured him it was not, Zuber slammed the flat of his hand on the table around which they were seated and shot up. “I demand a hearing before the board.”
The only response was a gimlet eye from Garrett, which said, “You’re looking at it.” To eliminate misunderstanding The Chairman became explicit: “It was my mistake to have appointed you and as of this moment I am correcting that
