CHAPTER 9February 15
Thursday, 10:00 a.m.
It seemed everyone at the management level, and most of the employees, had a motive to kill Charles Rawlson. Almost no one expressed regret at Rawlson’s fate, and several even hoped that the murderer—if there was one—would escape. But Frank was beginning to doubt that Rawlson had been murdered. Sabotaging the guidance system was simply too sophisticated to be credible. It was an accident so freakish, so statistically remote, that the sheer likelihood of elements coming together perfectly for that failure moment seemed ridiculous.
There was also the reality that few of the people who disliked Rawlson enough to kill him also had the know-how. They were mostly executive types with MBAs, and although Vickie’s background check on these company execut
