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Prologue

CEO knocks out the competition

CEO Duncan Patrick has once again knocked out the co billionaire ends the year with twocompany and a very profitable railroad line in South A the world transportation market, one would think the wealthy billionaire could afford to be gracious, but apparently that’s not the case For the second year in a row, Duncan has been naly, the reclusive billionaire declined to be interviewed for this article

“This is unconscionable,” Lawrence Patrick said, sla the business newspaper onto the boardroom table

Duncan leaned back in his chair and stifled a yawn “Did you want me to do the interview?”

“That’s not the point and you know it”

“What is the point?” Duncan asked, turning his attention from his uncle to the otherin? Are the investors unhappy with all the proceeds?”

“The point is the press loves to hate you,” Lawrence snapped “You bought a mobile home park, then evicted the residents, most of ere elderly and poor”

“Thefacilities n I needed the land for expansion The board approved the purchase”

“We didn’t approve seeing old ladies on television, crying because they had nowhere to go”

Duncan rolled his eyes “Oh, please Part of the deal was providing the residents with a new er and the area is residential, rather than industrial They have bus service right outside theIt was theto create a story”

One of the other boardyou bankrupt your competition?”

“Not at all If I want to buy a company but the person ns it won’t sell to entlemen You’ve all invested in ive a damn what the press thinks about me or my company”