Chapter 21
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One thing was clear. I needed to know more about the Ja Lama - as much as I could find out about him. I had considered him an afterthought, although certainly frightening in his own right. I had speculated about the source of his wealth. For some unclear reason, most likely because he was a Buddhist monk, I hadn’t thought of him as equally dangerous to Vitalius Kohl. I was going to have to reassess that, because it sounded like he was a partner in all of Kohl’s schemes and maybe even the real brains behind them.
Instead of going to bed, I wandered over to Kumar’s room and knocked on the door. He opened up, and swallowed heavily.
“Hi, Gavin.”
“Bad time?” I asked.
“No, of course not. Of course not. Come on in.”
“Why don’t you get the chess board out?” I asked, and
