By 2010 the world had become unrecognizable. On the surface.

Peer deeper and you'd see how things were changing less.

The details were changing. smartphones , increasingly  global economies,  electric vehicles , and promises of  self-driving cars.

But what actually mattered had calcified further.

Sebastian thought this while sipping through the middle of his ...

Caricatures of  real estate   moguls liked to shout "location! location!! location!!!" while shaking people's hands and jumping on stage and dancing poorly.

The Wolf didn't spend his days thinking about location. That wasn't his job. He was about reducing surface area. Reducing exposure.

How many people in the world knew who...

The third floor. Of a non-descript building.

The windows made of reflective glass. When the world dares peer inside, it sees only itself.

The glass is  bulletproof as well. After  location , this attribute was the primary concern of  The Wolf .

From the beginning, The Wolf accepted  assassination as a...