Vincent contacted me through Leila rather than showing up at the café.

He wanted to meet for twenty minutes at her office, with her present, to discuss the reward.

I agreed on the condition that he tell me why the police were looking at Simon Vale.

He arrived without his bodyguards entering the room.

A pale scar of exhaustion remained beneath his eyes.

“Vale helped me expand the port business ten years ago,” Vincent said.

“For years I ignored things I should have questioned because the money kept arriving.