"What it’s going to come down to," Luppas said, "is whoever manages to get both the woman and the software package first. Us or those runners. The one who gets the prize also gets a shot at cutting a healthy chunk of maybe the biggest score to hit the shadows. The loser is going to have to run hard to keep from getting geeked in the fallout. Lanier and Villiers can’t afford to get too involved and risk exposure. Dunkelzahn’s people are mixed up in this too, and they’re beating the bushes looking for his assassins." He’d learned that from reports Fishbein had forwarded. Evidently there were people in the great dragon’s hierarchy who knew about the grant Falkenhayne had gotten from the wyrm. According to Fishbein, though, none of Dunkelzahn’s investigators had tied Falkenhayne to either the Caber or the January name. "The last thing Villiers or Lanier would want is attention from Dunkelzahn’s people or the UCAS government."