Two hundred people were gathered beneath the glass chandeliers of the Halcyon Hotel to celebrate twenty years of Cardinal Systems, and every last one of them had been
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The Beaumont Private Country Club was an institution built on forty acres of meticulously manicured grounds in the coastal enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut. Its Grand Easter Ballroom was
A young man named Daniel enters an elegant restaurant in Paris wearing an old, faded jacket. The receptionist looks him up and down. “Are you sure you can
The stillness inside the grand marble foyer was so absolute that even the crackle of the security radios on the guards’ belts sounded like a thunderclap. Matteo Varric