"Someone else's lifetime, I hope," he says crisply, and hands her a paper with a new numbers and names. All written by your standard computer and printed out by your standard printer. "Yours should excel in length."
The waiter arrives with some hors d'oeuvres; after he leaves again, Sloane continues:
"There are several European accounts here I want to be closed, with their contents transferred to new accounts, in a way that even in the event of my execution would not allow the government to touch them, yet keeps them within the United States. Now I realize that it might be a somewhat mundane task for a woman of your abilities, but still, mundane things make excellent building stones, wouldn't you agree?"
He leans back.
"Besides. There is one account here I do wish to be traced to someone."
With the exception of the very few people he cares about, who are allowed to do anything to him, Sloane is not a forgiving person. He would have killed Howard Dean in any event, though at a time of his own choosing if events had not played out otherwise. This left him with another sadly anonymous enemy whose identity he had yet to discover, and Dean's assistant, the elusive Peyton. Who as it turns out has some relations in Texas, named Burkle; according to her file, she visited her aunt, uncle and cousin quite often. Not that Sloane has anything against the Burkles, but then, Peyton presumably doesn't have anything against Nadia, either.
"As you say, patriots can be obnoxious. Especially Texans."
Texans important from the East Coast, but his being less than impressed by the current administration was neither here nor there.
"Though it's quite possible in these times, wouldn't you agree, that all that artless Texan patriotism hides who knows what business connnections to foreign sources."
Asking Lilah Morgan to frame the Burkles could of course backfire, if she was a plant, but their actual connection to Peyton gave him enough leaveway to justify this. Jack wasn't naive. He would see this as a possible weapon to lure a crucial Prophet Five operative out of the woodworks and actually greenlight it.
If Lilah wasn't a plant, well, then it could be more.
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Date: 2006-01-16 08:13 am (UTC)The waiter arrives with some hors d'oeuvres; after he leaves again, Sloane continues:
"There are several European accounts here I want to be closed, with their contents transferred to new accounts, in a way that even in the event of my execution would not allow the government to touch them, yet keeps them within the United States. Now I realize that it might be a somewhat mundane task for a woman of your abilities, but still, mundane things make excellent building stones, wouldn't you agree?"
He leans back.
"Besides. There is one account here I do wish to be traced to someone."
With the exception of the very few people he cares about, who are allowed to do anything to him, Sloane is not a forgiving person. He would have killed Howard Dean in any event, though at a time of his own choosing if events had not played out otherwise. This left him with another sadly anonymous enemy whose identity he had yet to discover, and Dean's assistant, the elusive Peyton. Who as it turns out has some relations in Texas, named Burkle; according to her file, she visited her aunt, uncle and cousin quite often. Not that Sloane has anything against the Burkles, but then, Peyton presumably doesn't have anything against Nadia, either.
"As you say, patriots can be obnoxious. Especially Texans."
Texans important from the East Coast, but his being less than impressed by the current administration was neither here nor there.
"Though it's quite possible in these times, wouldn't you agree, that all that artless Texan patriotism hides who knows what business connnections to foreign sources."
Asking Lilah Morgan to frame the Burkles could of course backfire, if she was a plant, but their actual connection to Peyton gave him enough leaveway to justify this. Jack wasn't naive. He would see this as a possible weapon to lure a crucial Prophet Five operative out of the woodworks and actually greenlight it.
If Lilah wasn't a plant, well, then it could be more.