It was something harder and more necessary: the decision to look directly at the thing his family had spent a fortune and two generations not looking at, and to accept whatever he found there as his to answer for, because he had spent his whole life spending the money it had made.

Chapter 14 — The Audit

Over the next forty-eight hours, the situation moved quickly.

Warren Bishop assembled a team of independent legal and safety investigators.

Archived electronic files were unsealed.

Maintenance logs were cross-referenced against work orders.

Former job-site workers, some of whom had waited years for anyone to ask, agreed to give recorded statements.

The documents confirmed everything the blue envelope had suggested and worse.