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Payoffs
It didn't take Arlen long to settle down. With that bloodhound's instinct of his, he'd quickly made the connection between Max's impulsive overdose, the sudden onset of KS, and the foundation's understandable eagerness to keep the incident from the media and the public. He also guessed rightly that my masters had more than a little to do with Big Pharma, which necessarily involved its complicated network of alliances with university research institutions and the government. He was beginning to realize he was not wrong in warning me to be careful around those guys.
When I left Essanem that day, Arlen was worried the morning's mishap might trigger a lawsuit and jeopardize his chances of obtaining affordable business insurance. I had no idea what he was going to tell the underwr
