Dance of Death by John Case

Author:John Case [Case, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Case
Published: 2010-08-31T07:41:39.833000+00:00

CHAPTER 22

DUBLIN | APRIL 4, 2005

Burke couldn’t believe it.

The company shut down, his passport void, the old man indicted… and all because this dick, Kovalenko, was an Ayn Rand nut with a hatred for offshore companies. The suggestion that he and Tommy were somehow in cahoots with d’Anconia, whoever d’Anconia was, was ludicrous. He could barely remember the guy. The real problem was that Kovalenko had taken an instant dislike to him. It was as simple as that.

And as complicated.

Burke had a way of rankling people in authority, people like Kovalenko who wore their self-importance like a badge of honor. There was something in Burke’s stance, something in his attitude, or in his eyes, that just… wound them up. It would have been funny, it would have been a gift — but it tended not to end well.

Kovalenko was putting the screws to them because he could. The case would never come to court because, when you got right down to it, Burke had done everything by the book — no matter who the client was.

But in the meantime, Aherne & Associates was closed and the old man was in trouble.

Obviously, Kovalenko enjoying rattling people’s cages — no matter who they were or what they’d done (or hadn’t done). It was just an exercise in power. Like the business with Burke’s passport. That was hardball. But it was hardball the way weenies played it.

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