Chapter 9 — The Personnel List

A few days later, Garrett’s attorney came to the house to go through the electronic access logs and authorization records from the months Garrett had been incapacitated.

I stayed out of it entirely until the attorney — a careful, unhurried man named Kaplan — asked me to help reposition Garrett in his chair.

As Mr.

Kaplan gathered his files afterward, a single printed page slipped off the table onto the rug.

I bent to hand it back, and the header caught my eye before I could stop it: Personnel connected to the three audited procurement projects. Beneath it ran a short list of department heads.