"I think he’s going to whack us," Luppas said quietly. He let the words hang. "Villiers gave me the information on Ripley Falkenhayne today. Vankler told me there’s street buzz about someone who can make an extraction of a high-level passcoded corp exec and provide a turnaround of days instead of months to get the exec back on-line at another company. If that’s true, we’re talking about a corp being able to play merry hell with any other corp’s executive staff. That kind of power is worth killing over. And Richard Villiers is definitely one of the guys who’d do it without hesitation."