Where the fool came from didn't matter. What mattered was that among these jungle predators, none would ever let a valuable prey slip away.
"Did you buy the ship?"
Mickey once again ran up to Pierre and asked in a low voice.
"Alcat Shipping Company of Spain, Alfonso… he's your employee, isn't he?"
Faced with Mickey's barrage of questions, Pierre neither confirmed nor denied it.
"My God, how could you spend so much money on ships? Those ships are all money pits, you know?"
Mickey seemed a bit agitated. And who could blame him? After all, his future, his fate, depended on this guy making the right moves. Yet here he was, wasting precious funds on those old wrecks.
Was it really worth getting so worked up about?
Looking at Mickey, Pierre replied bluntly.
"I need those ships!"
