23.Neville's cell phone was off; he was never easy to contact.
Robert had already cursed his editor-in-chief to have his phone turned off all the time when he had already dialled his number three times in less than ten minutes.
All he could now was call the publishing house.
Neville was probably just in one of his mysterious meetings. He wanted to know if he could see him at some point that day.
A lady called Tracy answered, "Mr. Neville is not here."
"What do you mean, he is not there?"
"It means what I said: he is not here in the office" Tracy's voice was a bit annoyed. It probably wasn't a good day for her, either.
Red tried to be sweeter than what he would have liked to: "Tracy, does this mean he didn't come to work today?"
He failed his intent because the secretary was slightl
