Roskov, Book 22, page 29
‘Please, but first we need his company to be a bit bankrupt.’
‘His company was founded using drug money, and your new laws mean that his company can therefore be seized – and sold off.’
‘So go help me get three thousand apartments for key workers.’
‘Many of the residents may already fit that criteria, half are retired.’
‘So if I get them a place in a good Phase One they might move out.’ I nodded to myself. ‘Go savage the little shit bag please.’
‘With pleasure, and by that I mean that it pleases me to deal with such people, a modest improvement seen in the collective conscience of mankind.’
I smiled as he vanished. ‘Just need to get our average up a few points. Won’t take more than … two or three thousand years more.’
Putting my head down, something was nagging at me, something about Diana Princess of Wales, and shiver went through me again.
Geoff Wolak, Roskov, Book 22
