In the Army, as in life, sometimes you had to create a crisis in order to get people’s attention. - Terry Hayes

Not everybody knows this—or cares probably—but the first law of forensic science is Locard’s Exchange Principle, and it says “Every contact between a perpetrator and a crime scene leaves a trace.”

“Then what happened?” I asked.
“The Russian stopped calling, more important, the bills weren’t paid—I guess he either went broke or another oligarch had him killed.”
Probably the latter, I thought. That was the way most business disputes were settled in Russia.

If only—but it has been my unfortunate experience that you can’t rely on divine intervention and that fate favors the bad as often as the good.