“Which is why he’s gone underground. You don’t need to do this!”
“Exactly. I’m guessing he’s not going to resurface for a while. Not until he has a plan of action to strike back at me. Which means I need to beat him to the punch.”
“Brother, this is the Babai we’re talking about. The Babai. The name alone should make your skin crawl. Those fuckers are deadly.”
I lean forward, elbows on my desk. “Precisely. So why not turn their brand of poison on Petyr? They’ll take out everyone he associates with. Complete annihilation, erase him from the earth. Everyone who’s ever shaken his hand will die right along with him.”
“You’re placing too much faith in their ‘code,’ man. The Babai have been known to change allegiances on a whim. They’re aliens. Unpredictable. ‘Wild card’ doesn’t even begin to
