Sliced Bread 2: The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread

These meetings are missing something without Cassie there. Now it's just me and Greyghost and Cruickshank, and I already spend enough time with those guys. Today's exciting topic: Underhand.

"We've completed Phase I of the plan," Cruickshank reported. "Dieter Solarin now has his fingers in every pie that Underhand makes money from, and some other ones besides. We have positioned ourselves to act.

"This week we start into Phase II. We start using our economic influence over Underhand's customers and suppliers, and use it to squeeze him. This is where it gets dangerous."

"I thought it had been dangerous," I said. "Didn't you guys warn me last year that my life was in jeopardy?"

"They did some poking around last year," Cruickshank acknowledged. "And there was some danger. But now it's going to get serious. We're going to deliberately try to piss them off. And they are going to come after anyone they can think of who's responsible."

"Underhand and his organization should be able to trace their problems back to Dieter Solarin and John Caruthers without too much trouble. The danger is that they find the three of us standing behind those false names, and we should be safe from that. But you should still exercise caution."

"Any more questions?" Cruickshank asked.

"Yeah. We're going to die, aren't we?"

"That's really more of a comment than a question."