All The Kings Men – A P BATEMAN

Driving up sun- kissed California’s coastal route with the surf on his left and the cliffs, mountains and forest on his right, motoring over impressive bridges through places like Big Sur and Monterey Bay, Rashid had donned his sunglasses and dropped the roof of his hired Mustang, taking an upgrade from the premium compact vehicle that Mae had booked for him in London – he’d have to argue that one out later – he had thoroughly enjoyed the six- hundred mile drive, eating in diners and staying a night in a motel in the picturesque town of Carmel-by-the-sea.

Most people knew that Silicon Valley was the centre for technological design and development but were probably unaware that the valley just south of San Francisco was in fact a loose term for several valleys and within those, the cities of Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto and Menlo Park were all cited as the birthplace of Silicon Valley. San Jose is Silicon Valley’s largest city, the third largest in California, and the twelfth most populous in the United States.

Other major Silicon Valley cities include Santa Clara, Redwood City and Cupertino. The valleys were home to many of the world’s largest high-tech corporations, including the headquarters of more than thirty businesses in the Fortune 1000, and thousands of startup companies who had placed themselves within reach of the beating heart of technology. Rashid could see that he had come to a wealthy place. The houses and vehicles were grander than even what he had seen in the monied areas of Los Angeles. “What kind of man is he?”

Rashid asked. Tom Greensboro was personnel director of Microsoft in Redmond, and his office overlooked a neatly kept park with striped cut-grass lawns and a large tree-fringed lake in the distance. Smartly dressed in dark blue business suit and a light blue open neck shirt without a tie, his air-conditioned office was large, minimalistic and the windows made up an entire glass wall over fifty-feet wide and a dozen feet high.

Rashid thought the man would look just as at home selling flashy cars and weighty finance deals as much as seated behind the desk of one of the world’s largest, most prestigious software and development companies. Greensboro steepled his fingers, elbows on the glass desktop. “In what way?”

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Atonement (an Alex King thriller) 1kitap1.com/en Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Chapter 48 Chapter 49 Chapter 50 Chapter 51 Chapter 52 Chapter 53 Chapter 54 Chapter 55 Chapter 56 Chapter 57 Chapter 58 Chapter 59 Author’s Note 1kitap1.com/en T Chapter One here were only a few jobs more stressful than that of air traffic controller, but Peter Wright wouldn’t know what any of them were, and he would likely not believe anyone who told him.

He wouldn’t have cared, either because he enjoyed his work, enjoyed the stress in a pseudo masochistic way, and he liked the hours. Six shifts on, followed by four days off. His days were never longer than ten hours and he would never be required to start a shift until he had taken nine hours off from the previous shift. He enjoyed the night shifts the most because he liked coffee and generally suffered from insomnia and found that lying awake in bed through the night a lonely place since his divorce.

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