“Deal.” I am a businessman.

I know a decisive transaction when one is placed in front of me.

And I understood, shaking that bitter man’s hand, that he had just handed me the thread that would unravel the entire Miller family — because a scheme this elaborate leaves a paper trail, and I had spent my whole life learning to read one.

Chapter 8 — The Shell Company

That afternoon I brought in my longtime business lawyer, Sam Watson, and a forensic accountant named Dan Cooper, and I moved Gaby and Leo again, to a vacant suburban house my cousin owned, and we spent long hours reconstructing timelines, transfers, documents.