My body reads the fear you put in it as a distress signal.

So instead of moving anything, it froze everything.

Every account connected to you.

Every shell company.

Every offshore vehicle.

Every transfer network you’ve built in twenty years.

All of it, locked, this second.” “You’re lying,” he whispered, but he wasn’t sure, and the not-being-sure was destroying him.

“Why do you think I became a fraud attorney, Charles?” I asked him.