“Good. And what does full disclosure mean?”
“As they say in all the courtroom dramas, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
“Right. Good. Especially the whole truth. Did Steve Damon—you say his real name is Chocrón—reveal to Gordian House that he was not the actual author of The Emerald Cat? Didn’t his contract with Gordian have the usual clause to that effect, and that the property was truly his, unencumbered and his to dispose of? Did our Mister Chocrón lie to Jack Burnside?”
“Burnside never met Chocrón. Everything went through an agent. Rachael Gottlieb.”
“Really?”
“I interviewed her as well. She’s a real throwback. Fancy tea, medieval chanting music, fancy pillows on the floor.”
“Never mind that. If she signed the contract with Gordian then she and her client, C
