Chapter 21
The next morning was a portentous meeting at the pinnacle of Kenyan commerce, in a conference room on the twenty-sixth floor of one of the three Anniversary Towers in downtown Nairobi. The office was a little more than a half-mile from the Stanley.
It was a fine, temperate, sunny morning. Harry proposed they stretch their legs and walk over from the hotel. Aldo agreed after hiring a security guard from the lobby to accompany them. “They don’t call Nairobi Nye-robbery for nothing,” he grumbled.
Evans, the strapping guard who told them he was retired from the Kenyan Rangers, advised them as they set off, “Beware of teenage boys walking in pairs and women who look pregnant and beg.”
The conversation effectively dispelled Harry’s fine mood. He wondered again why he’d bothered to
