Part 23 (1/2)
Then they all want to be heroes and every podunk politico shoots off his mouth about the latest threat to humanity ”
”That's your politics?”
”Sure If you want to get so fixed, first fuck it up so bad that everyone notices and then they'll be crawling up your ass trying to help you fix it”
”Very novel, Mr Foster Very novel and very cynical” homosoto looked mildly amused
”Not meant to be Just true”
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Miles sounded defensive
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Foster returned ho stare-down that looked beyond hoht into his mind Foster used the knuckles from both hands for supports as he leaned on the table between the deliber- ately and coherently
”My greatest pleasure? A challenge A great challenge Yes, the , but the thrill is the chal- lenge I spent years with people ignoring ht soeveryone else and another co Ecch! I would love to teach them a lesson”
”How unfortunate for thenize your abilities and let your skills serve them Yes, indeed, how unfortunate” hoantly as he retreated back to his seat, ”you see a lot of answers It is your di But, Mr
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homosoto stood up erect ”You, Mr Foster You You are what I have been looking for And, if you do your job right, I a the assumption you will accept, you will become wealthier than you ever hoped Ever dreamed Mr Foster, your reputation precedes you” He sincerely extended his hand to Foster ”I do believe we can do business” ho at Miles Fos- ter
”OK, ok, so if I accept, what do I do?” said Miles as he again shook ho to lead an invasion of the United States of Ao Sunnyvale, California
Pierre Troubleaux was staggered beyond reason His life was just threatened and he didn't knohat to do about it What the hell was this disk anyway? Military secrets? Industrial espionage?
Then why put it on the dGraph disks and prograree? What did I say? I don't remember what I said Maybe I said ? This was just so some veiled Oriental threat
No, it was another one of those cultural differences Like calisthenics before work at those japanese companies that satu- rate the West Coast Sure it sounded like a threat, but this is OSO Industries we are talking about That would be like the head of Sony using extortion to sell Walkmen Impossible All the same, it was scary and he had no idea as on the disk He called Max
”Max! What are you doing?” What he meant, and Max understood, was 'I need you Get your ass up here now'
”Onfor Max proved to be uuy is nuts and ot lost in the translation
He prayed for the latter
”Yo, what gives?” Max walked into Pierre's office without knock- ing