That’s the one I’d want to ask her about.”

Part Nine: Eleven Days

What I did over the following eleven days is, I am told, the boring part.

It is also the part that worked, so I am going to set it out.

On the Wednesday morning I met Ruthanne Pyle in a conference room at seven fifteen with a legal pad and the notebook from the car.

She had brought two people.

One was an outside attorney named Hollis Dunmore, a white-collar specialist she had used for twenty years.