PART 1 The first person in the Harrington Group to understand what Nora Szabo actually was — not what she appeared to be, not what people assumed she was, but what she actually was — was not the boss. It was Paulie Ostrowski from shipping coordination. Paulie noticed because he had been in the building for nineteen years and had developed, through long practice, the specific observational skill of someone who understood that the people nobody watched were the ones worth watching. He noticed that Nora arrived every morning at…
Read MoreThe air in the office grew heavy, pressurized by the silence that had stretched between them for seven months. Outside, the gray curtains of rain turned the city into a watercolor blur, but inside, the focus was sharp enough to cut.
