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“Duers, the quiet ones that don’t always e citizen We started crisscrossing the sa across snon tracks in the woods again and again”

“The tracks were Gogstad’s”

Cohen nodded “It took us months to pin it down, and we still only have a partial picture Gogstad is enors in the hundreds of billions, it lomerate in history”

“I’ll admit I don’t read the Wall Street Journal every day, but I’ as you say”

“Don’t feel bad They’ve spent s a secret They use back-room deals, straw and dummy corporations, every trick in the book Thank God for coraphic Information System The GIS connects the info in the database to points on aconnections We’ve got sos around the world”

“Who’s behind this super-corp?”

“We’re pretty sure the reins of power are held by one person Her naurd”

Zavala had a deserved reputation as a ladies’ man, so his ears perked up at the urd”

“There isn’t azine list of h she deserves to be at the top We do know she was born in the US of Scandinavian parents, that she went to school in Europe and later started an engineering company called the Mulholland Group”

“I was just there I should have asked to see the lady”

“It wouldn’t do you any good She’s still listed as company president, but nobody sees her”

“I’m not clear on the company name The office isn’t on Mulholland Drive”

Cohen sently “Have you ever heard of the Owens Valley scandal?”

“It had to do with the Los Angeles water system, I believe”

“That’s right It’s hard to believe today, but LA was just a srow The nearest major source of fresh water was sleepy little Owens Valley two hundred uys to the valley to buy out the water rights to the river By the ti on it was too late to do anything Their water was on its way to Los Angeles”