Project Northwest (30 page)

Margarita in hand, he read the news and
watched the news videos on his laptop. Washington Common knew they
were in the cross-hairs of a well-connected enemy bank, but
helpless to stop it. The enemy had private numbers, had painted a
terrible picture in the minds of those responsible for the TARP
program, and it certainly didn’t help that Washington Common wasn’t
part of the Wall Street club. The bank was an outsider with few
political connections and vulnerable to those with interconnected
advocates.

Deals were struck between all the large
financial institutions. They were made to temper the financial
meltdown and to encourage the flow of money. At least that was what
the public was led to believe. But there was also an epic battle
for power being waged between the institutions—not only to make or
reserve money, but also to limit exposure to debt and rid
themselves of competitors.

The playing field was not fair, in fact,
according to some investigative journalists, the rules of the
playing field changed, were modified or ignored, apparently on the
whim of the federal regulator and the bank to which the rules were
being applied.

He knew the pundits and politicians were all
screaming, “too big to fail.” But in the end, three or four banks
would consume all the others and the U.S. would end up with even
larger banks.

Todd Morgan knew all of this and took
advantage.

He wasn’t surprised when news hit that the
well-connected Wall Street bank, his Project Northwest client, had
won the fire-sale bid. A bid of 1.9 billion dollars for the 300
plus billion assets of the troubled Washington Common Bank was
completed within hours and on a Thursday, no less. He silently
laughed. It took longer to buy a 15 thousand dollar car. He closed
his laptop and stared across the Caribbean Sea.

Cricket never saw Nathan Jones, also known as
Mr. Wrong, creep up from behind.

About the Author

C. B. Carter
resides in the historic art community of Ocean Springs,
Mississippi. He spent much of his youth with his grandparents,
uncle, and aunt near Roanoke, Virginia, where he was exposed to
classical music and the great writers of the 50s and 60s. He's a
veteran of foreign wars, having served two operations with the
Joint Task Force Southwest Asia after the Gulf War. Chaos Theorem
is his first novel.

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Other Works by C. B. Carter with Melange

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Chaos Theorem

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Chaos n 1
: a state of a system (the
condition of any system at a given time) where a system exhibits
disorder, confusion, uncertainty, or instability. 2: (Physics) a
dynamic system that is extremely sensitive to its initial
conditions.

Theorem n 1
: a statement which can be
proven true within some logical framework.

Chaos Theorem n 1
: a time catalyst
system that drifts by planned and unplanned actions, producing
projected and random results.

"No man ever steps in the same river twice,
for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

- Heraclitus (Greek philosopher of the
5th-6th centuries B.C.)

Chaos Theorem is set in the future and
follows the Director of the House Committee of CIS Administration,
Senator Abja Monis. Dr. Joseph Mark DeSantis, a troubled
mathematician and the stylist of the Chaos Theorem, and Caroline
Brown, a government geneticist battle Senator Monis in a game of
haves and have nots. The characters struggle, have plans and dreams
like we all do and strive to fulfill them with actions and
re-actions, but time and its hidden companion, teaches them a
lesson – only one thing continues on forever, only one thing
continues to grow and it battles chaos with each passing
second.