And a heartbeat later, a text arrived from Marshall: I know who’s really funding Draper.
It isn’t an outside competitor.
The person paying Draper Dynamics is inside your own family. When I opened the attached file and read the name, the room went cold around me.
Chapter 11 — Randall
The name on the screen was Randall Rollins — my father’s younger brother, the president of our real estate division.
I didn’t believe it.
Uncle Randall had been at every birthday and every holiday of my life.
He had held Lionel the day he was born and taught me to drive a stick shift on the family ranch.
But Marshall’s file held bank records from a shell company called Sable Capital, and Sable Capital had moved billions into accounts controlled by Draper.
I agreed to meet Marshall — not at a hospital, not anywhere with cameras, just a plain booth in a diner off the highway.