Chapter Eight
A Review With The General
Following the success of the Island Party the General called Sappho to a Special Meeting and brought her up to date with the various outcomes. Although they met regularly, this time, she noticed he’d stressed the term, ‘Special’, on the summons when it arrived.
It was the seventh month of her contract and, since her arrival on the Island, she’d brought a new level of joy to the Staff and to the Executives.
In a condensed, and heavily circumscribed, summary, the deals she’d helped to facilitate looked like this: the Mineral Rights had attracted $20bn; from which the General had supplied a Strategy, Arms, Equipment, Men, Training, and a Military and Civil Engineering Programme that had saved the President billions of dollars, yet had cost him only
