He considered it for a while. Then he caught her looking. "Oh, I believe you," he assured her. "I’m just trying to work out whether it matters . You’re suggesting some sort of ransom deal? Of course you are. But it’s not clear to me how we would set up such a transaction, or what good the money would do us, even if we could take delivery of it without every police and special forces unit in the world descending upon us. It would be difficult enough in Waziristan. In Canada?" He scoffed.