They took my money as well.

I am standing barefoot in the lobby of the hotel with nothing.” There was a heavy, dangerous silence on the line.

And then Martin’s tone dropped an octave, into something I can only describe as cold corporate lethality.

“Let me be certain I understand you,” he said.

“They removed sovereign identification documents from the person of a senior risk auditor who is currently carrying active global compliance files.

Is that what you are telling me?” I understood, then, what he was doing.