Spud and I were back in the conference room—rumors were rampant, stocks were crashing, and everyone on the trading floor had the hollow-eyed look of earthquake survivors. Spud didn’t look much better. After a few, stress-filled hours of sleep, I fit right in. Zombie central. &nb...
I didn’t call; I took the subway and made it downtown in ten minutes. A light mist was in the air on John Street when I came up the stairs. I hustled across the street and into the familiar building. I swiped my security card at the stile and walked through. The rolling ba...
Stafford. It was not a happy place to grow up, I’m afraid. Too many ghosts.” Selena Haley had the somewhat forced vivacity of a woman just past her prime and all too aware of it. She was still a beautiful woman but she did not glow. I knew she had just turned forty, but fo...
We ordered and made polite small talk until the waiter ceased hovering. The background noise of the street and the café gave us a small cone of privacy. I took a long drink of water and began. “Some of this I have been told and some of it is surmise and some of it is strai...