I wasn’t going to argue with him, because that was the task of others. I was meant to collect information, nothing more. If he was going to play this game, I was ready to play it. He showed me maps of all the places where he’d planned to grow crops. A lot of places, most of them in the region’s most vulnerable countries. “Do you have permission to use all that land?” He grinned. “We own that land. Given to us by people or governments grateful for the opportunities we give them. That land is worthless to them.” Given to him under pahemin, except those innocent government people didn’t understand the rules of pahemin, which were heavily skewed towards the buying and selling of debt. They might merely think that they could finally put useless land to a good purpose. Would anyone have expl

