Pivotal (Visceral Book 3) by Adam Thielen

Author:Adam Thielen [Thielen, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2017-11-28T07:00:00+00:00

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Zhuang Chan was the thirty-second chairman of the board of the Chantech corporation, a company that had been founded almost a century prior by members of the Chan family who saw the value of information technology. As the company grew, it expanded into related fields, and then fields related to those, and so on, until it had become an amalgam that adhered only to one thing, finding new markets to dominate.

Like many corporations that followed this path, there came a time of reckoning whereas the diversity had become a liability, and new leadership had to decide what to cut and what to keep, and how to forge a new, more focused path. Eventually, it settled into finance, construction, real estate, and energy production, keeping a small team on board for network technologies. This, of course, did not include its secret divisions or military buildup, as neither were for-profit ventures.

Mr. Chan, the Chairman, and sometimes referred to as the Chancellor, waited in a small conference room deep within the Chantech campus. It was this room he felt most comfortable using as his office. It sat just a hallway away from the front desk in a building situated in the middle of the complex. He wanted to feel connected. He wanted to feel like he was still the heart of the company.

Zhuang was tall at just over two meters. He was thin, but not frail. He wore a neatly trimmed beard with streaks of gray. He was nearing the age of sixty, but he refused to consider retirement, and modern-day augments could keep him strong for another twenty years. And so he absorbed himself in his work of maintaining order and control of as much of East Asia as he and his fellow board members could manage. Even late in the evening, if work required it, Chan stayed at the office. Often operating on only a few hours of sleep and unhealthy doses of stimulants, the Chairman left nothing to chance.

Some of that aforementioned maintenance required some ethical flexibility and for that, Chantech had decided they needed men like Roland Somer. He recognized that such men could be difficult to manage, and decided at the outset that he would keep the psion close and meet with him regularly so that he could be assured of Somer’s loyalty.

Roland arrived on time and groomed, setting Chairman Chan at ease. Insubordination would often manifest first as a lack of respect for punctuality and appearances. The seer waited for Chan to motion for him to sit.

The psion considered what their very first meeting must have been like. What was I thinking? he wondered. Did I ponder killing him like I do now? Perhaps I did kill him the first time, or maybe the second or third. If I did, I cannot sense it now, the memory has grown too faint.

“Mr. Somer,” addressed Zhuang Chan. “Thank you for coming to see me.”

“Of course, Mr. Chairman.”

“How are the bunnies?” Zhuang asked, honestly curious about how someone so ruthless would take care of such gentle creatures.

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