“Today,” Marius said into the microphone, “we don’t merge two companies.

We merge two legacies — an unstoppable force in global logistics.” In the back of the car, I pressed the key.

Chapter 18 — Red

Every screen in the atrium tracking the company’s global shipping routes stuttered at once.

The maps flickered, and then the oceans and continents inverted to a single hard red.

A message replaced the merger graphics on every monitor in the room — and on the live stream going out to millions: LICENSE REVOKED.