"No," Tashika said. Then he cut the connection and asked Bridget to get a certain DocWagon employee on the telecom—a fine artist in the practice of persuasion who Tashika knew through the yakuza. Doctor Franklin was not kobun, not part of the organization. And that was what made his involvement perfect for Tashika. Any yakuza involvement would trickle back to the oyabun, and Tashika did not want that.