The Devil's Handshake

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Washington, D.C. / London / Moscow

Arriving in Washington, London & Moscow almost within minutes of each other, yet unknown to each recipient, the transcript of the telephone conservation between the billionaire and the President of the world’s newest nation was handled differently.

Navjot and his team retreated to the Cube together to listen to it.

Rebecca left it on her laptop unopened, as was the case with regard the photos that had been emailed as well.

Alexei was still unaware of the call and would remain so until his analysts had summarized it for him.

Navjot left the images to one of his team, who deemed the photos of limited importance and as such parked them in a file.

Later still Alexei was still unaware of them, he too having left them for his analysts to deem whether the information was important enough for his attention to be included in his Report.

Rebecca dropped her coffee the second she saw the pictures of Wasir Osman Hassan boarding his yacht!