Dating toons

He sat down and used the information Valentine had sent him to get into the security logging database. Where can we go? He was moving fast enough that, despite the temperature, there was a sheen of sweat on his face. With the testimony of a witness. But you will have to tell the police. The labor statesman, it turned out, was one Stacey Hundermark, who was president of something called the Public Employees Union (AFL–CIO), which Hundermark had helped found back in Minneapolis in 1932 and had since nurtured to a respectable membership of around 250,000. Now, it seemed, some young upstart wanted to take Hundermarks job away from him. The upstart was one Arch Mix who, my uncle had hastened to assure me, was no relation to Tom. Stone forgot about arming himself and headed for the front door. Dino and Rawls were a dozen strides out, standing over an inert form on the ground, an assault rifle beside him. Apparently so. Then it was back to the updates. Do you live nearby? asked Fred. Beats me. I found it in the mail when I got to work — some time ago. Even though you really didnt want to? I dont see anything. Twenty minutes later, Stone answered the front door, then stepped out onto the stoop and closed it behind him. Youll want to wait for it, I suppose, Vullo said. Viv is on board for that, Dino said. I imagine that Vanessa would be for it. Whats your connection with her? Drake asked. Sure, thanks for the call back. And Ill get Jills phone to her. Her name was Jennifer Stamos. She was twenty-eight and had been at Cowl for six years. In fact, she had been in Sara Ewess class. Devine knew this because she was in the firms employee directory, which was accessible to all at Cowl. It did not contain addresses, like an old phone book did, or other personal information. This was strictly business-related. It was known, firm-wide, without a shred of originality,as the Book. It contained all the things each person had done while at Cowl: every deal, every triumph, every failure, every screwup. Cowl kept score like no one else. Everyone had a numeric and alphabetical grade that, combined, served to define their firm-wide ranking for all to see, and, to ratchet the pressure up even more, that ranking was updated daily..