Two days before the final session, I was eating breakfast when Olivia called.
Not a message. A call, at seven forty-three in the morning, which from Olivia meant it was something she had decided could not wait and could not be summarised in text. I picked up on the second ring.
“Have you seen the Meridian Financial column this morning?” she said.
I had not. I pulled it up while she waited, Noah across the table eating toast and reading the back of the cereal box with the focused attention he gave everything written, including, apparently, nutritional information.
The column was titled: Inside Sinclair Group’s Merger Defence Strategy. Twelve paragraphs. Detailed. Specific. The kind of specific that does not come from educated guessing or industry sources. The kind that comes from someon
