Not that his doctors could do anything if he had been poisoned. The only person who had a cure was thousands of miles away, and she had good reasons to cheer his poisoning along. It was all damnably irritating.
How the hell had that bastard delivered it to his private office?
The GP bot had of course brought the box the last few steps. The BrainTrust had of course manufactured the bot. All GP bots came from the archipelago. Could they have put a backdoor into all their chips, and used that to subvert the bot?
No, no, their reputation was too precious to them. That bastard would not do something so obvious and harmful to the archipelago’s long-run interests. Surely he had simply exploited human fallibility: the deliveryman thinks the box is high priority, he gives it to a new employee wh
