Chapter 12Later that morning Patrick resumed his usual rounds, and went into his favourite coffee house. With a pot of the steaming brew before him, he began to work his way through the copious notes he’d made around the events of the last couple of weeks.
Jabez Malefie was powerful, but his allies were loyal out of fear. One or two were trying to break away from his hold, but even they wouldn’t risk exposing what they knew of the man.
Arrogant and prone to bouts of unrestrained fury. Successful in business through dubious means. Head of a club that rivals the Hellfire Club. Less well known, but full of indulgences of carnal and hedonistic pleasure. Not all of the participants willing, by all accounts.
There had been no value in revealing this side of Ryland’s father to the younger man.
