They met in Mexico, at Tobias Serrano's luxurious mountainside villa. El-Salaki had once again been the one to demand the gathering, and Bennett refused to have them come to his own home. Or anywhere in the States. Photographers hid everywhere and his enemies would be more than happy to find a chink in his armor and widen it.

On the flight down, he'd kept asking himself how the fuck he'd gotten into such a situation. He'd started out with such ideals. Developing BGE had taken ...