The reason he was so careful came out over the following days, in pieces.

Before the accident, Garrett had found something wrong in the company’s books.

Three large equipment-procurement contracts, run through new vendors no one had properly vetted, padded with inflated consulting fees and cash transfers that made no sense on any honest ledger.

Together, the questionable deals came to more than sixty million dollars.

Three days before his car was run off the road, he’d driven out to an off-site warehouse himself to pull the original paper manifests and check them against the contracts.

Then he woke up in intensive care.