Terms of Surrender

Chapter 280. Plea.

TRISTAN

My lawyer laid the numbers out the way he always laid out numbers, flat, precise, no room left for the kind of negotiation I used to assume I could always find somewhere inside any set of facts.

"If we go to trial," he said, "and I want to be honest with you about this, Tristan, because I think honesty is the only thing left that actually serves you, the conspiracy