If he was right, Leonard's purchase of Vaxtek stock had not been profligate at all, but was the sort of shrewd, cowardly calculation that he expected of his brother. Alan Steinhardt's secrets were trivial when compared to Emil Thorpe's. How many other facts still escaped his grasp? What did Chris Palmieri know?Rain poured steadily outside the hotel window as Seeley dressed. He borrowed an umbrella from the desk clerk, but passed up the hotel taxi line to walk the mile to Battery Street and the office. Abandoned on an early Sunday morning, the streets and sidewalks of the financial district underlined in thick charcoal strokes the isolation that Seeley now felt from his client and his case. Rain silvered the gray buildings and streamed onto the sidewalks. What client, Seeley thought. What case?A war room in the middle of trial would ordinarily be a shambles of notebooks, half-used legal pads, and the remains of Chinese takeout, but Tina had done a good job keeping papers filed and notebooks reshelved.
