The Tenth Witness (Henri Poincare Mystery) - Plot & Excerpts
My life was about to become a crazed quilt of travel, consulting, and hiring. This was the good news. The bad: not a single new client was based in Germany, let alone Munich. Liesel had returned from Bangladesh three days earlier, her spirits in shambles. “Before I arrived,” she said, “the plant manager and the government had worked out the death benefit for each worker.” It was the second time that summer she nursed a Scotch on her balcony, contemplating how Kraus Steel had violated its own. “The families agreed that each life is worth $244 in US dollars. Two-forty-four times fourteen workers. This was our total liability in Chittagong. Our manager didn’t understand why I bothered to come.” I asked about an account in the Times reporting that three children had died. Liesel wouldn’t look at me. “The teenagers lied about their age. To work they must be eighteen, but no one checks. One of the dead was sixteen. Two were fifteen. Apparently, we hire them to carry off asbestos.
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