THIRTY-SIX
“HELLO?”
“Kaif halak, Omar.”
“I’m sorry, Omar can’t come to the phone right now, who can I say called?”
“...Who is this?”
“...”
“Who is this?!”
“I never got the opportunity to thank you for the early viewing you arranged for us this afternoon.”
“Mr. Deeh.”
“...”
“You’ve become quite the problem for me, Mr. Deeh.”
“Yes, I have no doubt about that.”
“I need that...item Mr. Deeh.”
“I need to not get locked up in a Saudi prison forever.”
“Then we are in the perfect position for a trade, wouldn’t you say?”
“Ostensibly so, yes.”
“...”
“It means ‘apparently’.”
“Yes, of course.”
“What about the other two, Feinstein and Ayres? I hear you’ve had them rounded up as well. I suppose for the same kind of Gitmo-style questioning you had planned for me.”
“You robbed The King
