To put him at ease, I proposed that we go to my apartment to talk freely. Shaking his head, I sensed that he wanted to have it all out, before he reconnected with Red-Sarah. “Very few people knew that he was the g*n factory’s majority stockholder. He owned HCS stock of a large percentage of people in this town. No one knew that the man running the city was also the richest. He set up a foundation that contributed to all kinds of organizations loyal to him. Naturally, he covered all bases. He was a manipulative businessman and a wicked politician. Yes, he was the worst of what the plague produced. Lots of people envied him, all of them feared him. Some were grateful he was running the city with the iron hand.”
Although I tried not to show it, Jason’s revelation was bewildering. A thousand
