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 Well, I'll tell you what, Lucinda. Let me give you a lead I don't have time
to follow up on. I happen to know the NFL franchise purchase is not going to
go through after all. The money was shaky and the league's gonna reject the
offer. Your local legend is going to be embarrassed.
Lucinda had begun scribbling furiously.  You're not serious, she had said,
reaching for her phone.
 No, I'm not, but it was sure fun to see you swing into action.
 You creep, she had said.  Anybody else I'd be throwing out of here on his
can.
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 But you love me. You can't help yourself.
 That wasn't even Christian, she had said.
 Don't start with that again.
 Come on, Cameron. You know you got your mind right when you saw what God did
for Israel.
 Granted, but don't start calling me a Christian. Deist is as much as I'll cop
to.
 Stay in town long enough to come to my church, and God'll getcha.
 He's already got me, Lucinda. But Jesus is another thing. The Israelis hate
Jesus, but look what God did for them.
 The Lord works in 
 In mysterious ways, yeah, I know. Anyway, I'm going to London Monday.
Working on a hot tip from a friend there.
 Yeah? What?
 Not on your life. We don't know each other that well yet. She had laughed,
and
they had parted with a friendly embrace. That had been three days ago.
Buck had boarded the ill-fated flight to London prepared for anything. He was
following a tip from a former Princeton classmate, a Welshman who had been
working in the London financial district since graduate school. Dirk Burton
had been a reliable source in the past, tipping off Buck about secret
high-level meetings among international financiers. For years Buck had been
slightly amused at Dirk's tendency to buy into conspiracy theories.  Let me
get this straight, Buck had asked him once,  you think these guys are the
real world leaders, right?
 I wouldn't go that far, Cam, Dirk had said.  All I know is, they're big,
they're private, and after they meet, major things happen.
 So you think they get world leaders elected, handpick dictators, that kind of
a thing?
 I don't belong to the conspiracy book club, if that's what you mean.
 Then where do you get this stuff, Dirk? Come on, you're a relatively
sophisticated guy. Power brokers behind the scenes? Movers and shakers who
control the money?
 All I know is, the London Exchange, the Tokyo Exchange, the New York
exchange we all basically drift until these guys meet. Then things happen.
 You mean like when the New York Stock Exchange has a blip because of some
presidential decision or some vote of Congress, it's really because of your
secret group.
 No, but that's a perfect example. If there's a blip in your market because of
your president's health, imagine what it does to world markets when the real
money people get together.
 But how does the market know they're meeting? I thought you were the only one
who knew.
 Cam, be serious. OK, not a lot of people agree with me, but then I don't say
this to just anyone. One of our muckety-mucks is part of this group. When they
have a meeting, no, nothing happens right away. But a few days later, a week,
changes occur.
 Like what?
 You're going to call me crazy, but a friend of mine is related to a girl who
works for the secretary of our guy in this group, and 
 Whoa! Hold it! What's the trail here?
 OK, maybe the connection is a little remote, but you know the old guy's
secretary is not going to say anything. Anyway, the scuttlebutt is that this
guy is real hot on getting the whole world onto one currency. You know half
our time is spent on exchange rates and all that. Takes computers forever to
constantly readjust every day, based on the whims of the markets.
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Buck was not convinced.  One global currency? Never happen, he had said.
 How can you flatly say that?
 Too bizarre. Too impractical. Look what happened in the States when they
tried to bring in the metric System.
 Should have happened. You Yanks are such rubes.
 Metrics were only necessary for international trade. Not for how far it is to
the outfield wall at Yankee Stadium or how many kilometers it is from
Indianapolis to
Atlanta.
 I know, Cam. Your people thought you'd be paving the way for the Communists
to take over if you made maps and distance markers easy for them to read. And
where are your Commies now?
Buck had passed off most of Dirk Burton's ideas until a few years later when
Dirk had called him in the middle of the night.  Cameron, he had said,
unaware of the nickname bestowed by his friend's colleagues,  I can't talk
long. You can pursue this or you can just watch it happen and wish it had been
your story. But you remember that stuff I was saying about the one world
currency?
 Yeah. I'm still dubious.
 Fine, but I'm telling you the word here is that our guy pushed the idea at
the last meeting of these secret financiers and something's brewing.
 What's brewing?
 Well, there's going to be a major United Nations Monetary Conference, and the
topic is going to be streamlining currency.
 Big deal.
 It is a big deal, Cameron. Our guy got shot down. He, of course, was pushing
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