Influence by Daniel Hurst

Author:Daniel Hurst [Hurst, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daniel Hurst
Published: 2020-05-26T22:00:00+00:00

#Its12oClockSomewhere

Sebastian Sawyer

It’s a typically busy day in my world. I’ve got an 11am conference call with my fellow board members at GloryGen, the fitness retail company that we hope will one day rival Adidas and Nike for the market share of the global fitness industry. Then I’ve got a lunch reservation at 1pm with Michael Spratini, the politician I am throwing my support behind in the race to be the next Governor of New York City. And on top of all that I’ve got the accounts of eight PhoGlo influencers to run.

But before all that I have my regular 10am meeting with Ivan Ilghiz, a middle aged Russian investment banker and the man in charge of my substantial portfolio. He flies in from Moscow to visit my Los Angeles office on the first Friday of every month to go through my positions and discuss our investment strategy going forward.

We could hold this meeting over the phone, via a video call or even by email but then all those things can be hacked, traced or recorded and so I ensure we hold the talks in person, face to face, alone in my office, where this is no chance of anything we discuss ending up in a court room.

Even then I still take my precautions.

Every morning when I enter my office and before I begin my day’s work I perform a methodical sweep of the room with an Anti-Bug detector, the instrument that tells me if there any recording devices anywhere that I need to be wary about.

So far there haven’t been any but I’m never going to stop checking. When you travel as much as I do it leaves plenty of opportunity for ambitious detectives or nefarious business rivals to sneak in and bug my place of work, and as much as I trust my security staff I know that there are always ways of getting into a room that you just have to get inside.

With the rate at which my operations are growing it’s only a matter of time before I start getting heat from the authorities or blowback from my competitors and so it’s imperative that I stay one step ahead of them at every turn. It’s one thing trying to run a multi-million dollar empire from behind my desk here in my native California, but it’s another thing altogether to have to try and run it from the jail cell of a maximum security prison.

Life inside could be relatively comfortable for someone as rich and powerful as me but still, it’s nowhere near as comfortable as it is on the outside. I sure didn’t fork out $20million for my new private jet only to see it seized by the LAPD when they pull a recording from my office detailing all the ins and outs of my astute but criminal business activities.

The clock hits 10:55 and the call from my receptionist tells me that Ivan is here for our appointment. I thank her and tell her to send him

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