Chapter Twenty-Four
The Brillcart View
“My name is Rhonda and I’m here to help you,” she said as she slipped a pair of hinged handcuffs around Emily’s slim wrists.
Emil Brillcart studied the video carefully. At his hand commands, the hooded, uncomfortably bound female assistant stopped, paused and reversed the clip several times until he finally waved her away. As the woman shuffled out of the viewing room, her chains rattling softly, Brillcart picked up one Nokia cell phone from the arrangement of five on his desk and pressed one button. The line was answered by a woman who spoke only one word: “plans.”
Brillcart said, “proceed with Oscar and Papa,” and then pressed the “end” button on the phone. These five words put two more of his many criminal plans into operation. If his calls we
