Chapter 48
11:45 AM
November 26, 1943
Office of the Acting CEO
Monarch Industries
Carlisle Pennsylvania
Tired, haggard, and showing his age, Phillip Genero sat at the ornate desk in the bare and cavernous office space. Shorn of its fancy trappings and expensive artwork, the room mustered all the charm of an empty basketball court.
Given the choice, Phillip would have worked in the one of the smaller offices down the hall or on the floor below. Whenever he sat at the oversized desk, he could sense the malign presence of Junior in the very texture of the place. The office generated so much bad karma that on several occasions Phillip had to remember what was at stake in Carlisle. He had reach down and tap his personal discipline to refrain from storming out of the room and throwing in
