White Hot Silence: a Novel by Henry Porter

Author:Henry Porter [Porter, Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780802147547
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

A failure of communications between the NYPD and ICE meant there was a delay in fitting the ankle monitor and Hisami was forced to spend several more hours in custody. Tulliver and Samson met in a coffee bar a block away from the Metropolitan Correctional Center, once Samson had checked into a downtown hotel near Hisami’s apartment in Tribeca.

He had slept on the plane so he felt fresh. The same couldn’t be said of Tulliver, who was fighting several fires at once. The media were all over Hisami, who, up until a few weeks before, had managed to maintain a low profile that bordered on the secretive. In the past, he had consented to do interviews only when publicising his sister’s work with children suffering from cancer or, more recently, the Aysel centres. Though many remarked on his pleasant manner, they also noted that Hisami was reticent, elliptical. ‘Delphic’ was a word used a few times. Now he had even reached the pages of the New York Times, which had published a long profile that asked questions about his past relationship with the CIA and referred to the rumours about his part in a raid on a terrorist cell in Macedonia three years before. Hisami’s publicist regarded this as helpful coverage that portrayed him as America’s friend and as an action hero, but Tulliver said that none of it was good for business. The doubts about Hisami’s past and the credible rumours about his involvement in the Macedonian incident were causing the banks to review their relationship with Hisami. The elaborate structure of Hisami’s holdings and investments, particularly in media and biotech start-ups, already stressed by shorting the pharma stock, was beginning to rock. He was very rich, but it could all go overnight. ‘His wealth relies on a perpetual forward momentum and his constant focus,’ said Tulliver. ‘The most important part of his life is his daily conversations with bankers, which cannot be conducted from the Metropolitan Correctional Center. He’s got a long way back to rebuild those relationships and the confidence people had in him.’ He looked Samson in the eye. ‘He may not make it.’

Samson rubbed his neck and looked out of the window. ‘What the hell is this about, Jim? I mean, what the fuck are we all dealing with? Tell me what it is, because for the life of me, I don’t get it. A massive sum has gone missing and Adam Crane is responsible. Is TangKi merely the channel, or has Crane raided its reserves? Five people have been murdered and Anastasia kidnapped and held hostage in Russia without any kind of ransom demand. And now we know that Denis was working with the CIA in the 1990s and whoever is punishing him has access t0 detailed information about that time. Are we dealing with a vendetta? What’s it all add up to?’

‘I know as much as you do.’

‘Crap – you know much more.’

‘I have intimations.’

‘What the hell are they?’

‘I knew nothing of

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