“My team called their procurement office in Boston at nine-forty this morning.

The woman who answered had never heard of this agency.”

Behind the glass wall, someone’s chair dragged on the carpet and stopped.

Eleanor turned the folder around.

Charts, columns, a single figure circled in pencil on the top sheet.

“Thirty-one percent.

That’s the share of this agency’s revenue that came from campaigns Mr.

Bennett wrote and ran over the last four years.