I looked at the name.
I looked at it for a moment and I thought about the scale of what Federnaz had built and the patience with which he had built it and the specific, cold intelligence of a man who had understood from the beginning that the most efficient way to run an operation like this was not to avoid the oversight but to own it, to make the people responsible for finding you into the people most motivated to not find you.
"How long has this payment been running," I said.
"The earliest transaction I can identify is nine years ago," Dane said. "Which means this predates the shipping company, predates the legitimate business layer, predates everything visible. He built the political protection first and then built the business around it."
"He built the roof before the house," Kowal
