Chapter Thirty-Two
Seeing the governor, of course, was not simple, especially without invitation. I’d been trying to get an invitation to see Dekker for almost a year, and he was supposed to be friendly to us. I had no illusion that I could just walk up to Celia Braddock’s office and get in. Trickery was needed.
We discussed options and their inherent problems. I didn’t want violence. This restricted the options somewhat, but my team agreed that violence would be unhelpful. I was trying to convince the leaders, not kidnap or threaten them. It would be helpful if Celia Braddock saw my evidence and understood who was responsible for the attacks. She was in a good position to communicate with these people, when they chose to come forward. Maybe they already had, who knew? She was going to b
