"'What do you know about money laundering, Hollis?' the old man asked, passing her a round foil dish of peas and paneer."
"'That jacket we put you in, in New York, for the helicopter,' the old man said, walking around Tito, who had just put on a new black hooded sweatshirt that Garreth had given him.
Chapter summaries - may contain plot and character teaser / "spoiler" information, depending on how many reviews you have read so far:
Chapter 71. HARD TO BE ONE
The old man ["as American as it go"”] explains to Hollis that the United States "sent nearly twelve billion dollars in cash to Iraq, between March 2003 and June 2004... intended to cover the transition of power from the Coalition Provisional Authority to the interim Iraqi government. The largest one-time transfer in the history of the New York Fed."After sharing some food with Garreth [a BASE jumper and fan of the Curfew, among other things], the old man asks Hollis how she would feel about being exposed to an "uncertain amount" of radiation as Hollis wonders if she is experiencing a bit of Stockholm Syndrome herself when she agrees to go with Garreth to observe his mission. [683 characters]
So where did the rest of the money disappear to ? How much more purely electronic money was also stolen ?
What about the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) snooping scandal ?
BASE jumpwes - adrenalin junkies who jump (with a parachute) from " Buildings, Antenna, Span, Earth" who often also film themselves or each other doing so for commercial or egotistical reasons.
Chapter 72. EVENT HORIZON
After giving Tito his final instructions for entering the shipping yard, the old man tells Tito that his father ["a man who valued truth"] was shot by "an agent of Castro’s DGI... [a] delusional, paranoid" who later died in a bar fight, likely at the hands of the DGI.Preparing to leave and wrapped in sixty-feet of black nylon climbing rope under his green jacket, Tito then helps Garreth move the Pelican case, heavy given it is mostly lined with lead before briefly talking to Hollis and understanding "why they would make posters of her." [541 characters]
Black and Green again.