Bambakias came on, in his richest and most intent baritone. "Oscar, you are a professional. You’re a player. Players don’t get angry. They just get even. You have no business wandering around in Louisiana, with an Anglo terrorist hacker who has a police record. That is just not a player’s move. We’re going to nail Huey for this; it’ll take a while, but we’ll pin him down. Huey made a fatal error—he poisoned a member of the President’s NSC. I don’t care if Huey’s got a skull full of turbochargers and afterburners. Insulting Two Feathers by gassing one of his staff was a very stupid move. The President is a very hard man—and most directly to my point, he’s proved himself a far better politician than the ex-Governor of a small Southern state."