Chapter Five
July One
11:00 P.M.
Baron was an i***t. Langley had already decided that. All evening the fool had been trying too hard sell his company’s crappiest product line, and sidestepping all of Langley’s attempts to address the serious issues that he had with it, and hinting with winks and nudges that buying this crap, flaws and all, would somehow benefit Langley personally. Baron was dangling his bait and waiting for Langley to betray interest in whatever kickback scheme was festering in his fevered Machiavellian imagination, but Langley wasn’t biting.
Langley was too wise to trust a man who would lie to his own company rather than simply consult with the engineering department and fix the damn problem! When the corners that he was cutting led to trouble, as they inevitably woul
