Gregor complained as he sipped cognac in front of the fire in Michael’s study. The two of them had retired to the comfort of cigars and Courvoisier after hearing the news that the attack on Yankee Stadium had gone off without a hitch. “Because it was never the plan. We needed for the authorities involved, particularly A-Tac, to believe that they’d thwarted the worst of it. That they’d won the day. Victory makes people careless.” “But it seems like killing or injuring a stadium full of people would have far better suited our purposes than a single death.” “Yes, well, maybe on the surface. But think of a chain of dominoes. If you were to drop something on them, explode them as it were, some of them, at least, would still remain standing. Isolated, but still strong. And the incident, though frightening, wouldn’t guarantee their destruction. But if you arrange the dominoes properly and then knock over just the one—all of them fall. And the impact is far more disastrous.”
