"Sir," Daniel's voice came, tight with concern, "they've grounded the aircraft. Homeland and FAA just issued the directive. They're citing 'procedural verification' — but it's clearly political."
"I was already expecting it," Liam said, in a cool and unbothered tone.
He had already had Lucy go through the aircraft's papers and it was impeccably clean. The procurement was legitimate and the payments reconciled. Ownership flowed through a Delaware holding company, under another holding, under another — seven layers deep across Luxembourg, Singapore, and the Caymans.
He'd asked Lucy to trace the umbrella entity that sat above the holdings, but even she couldn't penetrate it.
