Julian, standing between me and the door, believed his organization made him untouchable.

What he did not understand, what men like him never understand, is that an organization is not a shield; it is a paper trail with a menacing face attached.

The more elaborate the scheme, the more of it there is to find, and to prove, and to hand to a prosecutor.

My sister acting alone would have been harder to convict than my sister acting with a firm, a notary, a lender, and a lien.

They thought their organization made them safe.