CHAPTER 53
I was more nervous about spilling coffee on my stick-pin-recording-device than I was about my assignment. After all, I only had to talk to people and talking was what I did for a living. Like they say, talk is cheap until you hire a lawyer.
It was ten in the morning and La Vida Boca was its usual beehive of activity. Not really, everyone was just sitting around the lobby like they always did. Jayashree's last piece of advice to me was to be flexible because it was a fluid situation--like in court, when a star witness changes his story. Flexible was fine, but my plan was still to interview Samuel first. If he was the scammer (and I hoped he was), then I could stop looking. The receptionist desk was the best place to start.
"Good morning, Glenda, how are you today?"
"As well a
