Mr. Cartwright and the Final Solution by Greta C. Wink

Author:Greta C. Wink [Wink, Greta C.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-05-27T04:00:00+00:00

15.

When I make a Plan, I hold back a little. Though I trust and value my employees to follow through on any project to which they are assigned, there is no reason for an entire organization to know the plans of an employer until it’s necessary. There are things a President should know that the citizens should not.

I call Zero-Zero-One into my downtown office. She looks tired, but happy to see me. Her hair is fading back to its original color. Her skin is rougher, but her eyes are still sharp. I do some quick math in my head and realize that I haven’t seen her in person since the fourth Emelius Cartwright book came out. That was six years ago.

She smiles. “Funny how two people can be so close to each other but so far from each other.” She has been my closest associate for eighteen years, and my legal partner for fifteen. She owns her own house, a number of cars, and several condos that she leases in Brooklyn. She is incredibly wealthy, the chairwoman for an organization that provides free science and engineering after school classes to low-income youth. She is on the board of a dozen other charities. She consults and trains new employees at Final Solutions and facilitates and manages all their business. Additionally, her house is spotless, or so I’m told. She takes a beaten legal pad out of her purse and balances it on her knees. Some things never change.

I tell her my idea for world peace.

When I’m done, she is silent. I am silent. She runs the same calculations I did earlier.

She sighs. “Do you realize how much this is going to cost?”

I’m a little disappointed. I am sure that I taught her my breath-holding technique.

“I don’t want to discourage you, but I don’t know if you’ve thought this through entirely. The start-up costs alone – vehicles, hiring process, living arrangements – not to mention the training, the administrators we’ll need to hire to organize the teams, the salaries of all these people, the taxes – it’s a fortune. Even for you.”

I tell her that for a decade I’ve been buying and investing in land overseas, particularly in developing and recovering countries like Haiti, Lithuania, and Somalia. In addition to contributing to the welfare and infrastructure of the countries, I also have quite a bit of money in overseas bank accounts. Along with my sizeable Emelius Cartwright residuals, it should be plenty.

She is silent again. Two times in one visit. It’s never happened before. “I should have known that you plan for everything. Of course you know how much this is going to cost. How long have you actually had this idea?”

What good is an idea if it remains an idea?

She has to agree with me. She picks up her pen to take notes.

As usual I have a plan for the hiring and training process. Every trial will be a competition and a team-building exercise so the candidates have to learn to work together to win.

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