Chapter 27

It took Pete 3 days to come up with the plan. Honestly it only took him two hours but if there was one thing he had learnt in the cunning profession it was that the longer you kept your opponent waiting the more desperate they became and the more they would bend to your will. With this in mind Pete agreed to meet up with the Brownson's on a Saturday, having discovered there was a trade fair at the amusement park just south of the city. He knew it was the perfect crowd and the perfect day to get lost in the crowd if need be. He didn't trust anyone or anything, no, only his wits and guts and that evening, as he sat, plotting the intricacies of the whole operation, he had plans for an exit just in case the Senator and his wife didn't quite value the baby as they had projected. That night, they had made their demand of $40,000,000 and Martha had agreed without as much as a pause in her speech, no doubt without batting her eyelids too. Pete had picked the location and date to correlate wi