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All Chapters of Wages of Fear: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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Chapter 12

Sony Boy was sitting in the gold lame chair, dressed in blue sequins and six-inch heels. She wore her hair piled in twirls on top of her head like some cotton-candy courtesan in the court of Louis XIV. Dinkleberry liked to think of Sonny Boy’s style as Gaudy Chic.She always said the fuchsia streaks in her long black hair were a leftover from her days of turning tricks on the streets of
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Chapter 13

Yeo went to the intercom and discovered that Chuck Maitland was waiting downstairs to take him to dinner. They walked over Fifth Avenue. It was a balmy New York evening and everyone was out on the streets. They walked downtown to Chinatown. 
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Chapter 14

Yeo was in the town car stalled in Manhattan traffic on his way to the TransGlobal building, when his cell phone rang. It was Ilna.“Do you remember Prague?” she said.That was all she said when he answered the phone. He sat there in silence. 
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Chapter 15

On the plane to Prague, Yeo reflected on his own disillusionment with capitalism. His business ventures in Eastern Europe swept all the way to Russia. He had been one of the early plunderers.Yeo could spot a trend with an eagle’s eye.He bo
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Chapter 16

Dink was getting way too into the pure Peruvian shit.Sleep shifts were six hours, but he’d awake after an hour or two and smoke a few spliffs and drink a couple beers to get back to sleep.Upon awaking, he made a cup of coffee and did his first line of coke for the day. It was great for getting things done, but it was beginning to make him crazy.
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Chapter 17

Yeo became increasingly disillusioned with capitalism, when he began studying the limitations of the water supply on the planet.Private investors, governments, and giant corporations were buying up water rights all over the planet, primarily in the Third-World countries of Africa and South America, in anticipation of a dwindling fresh water supply.The deals were easily made.
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Chapter 18

Dink hurried back to his station and opened the baggy of coke. A couple lines and a beer and he was back in business.Christ, it was good to get the head clear again, he thought.He took the station off autopilot and sat in the swivel chair and reviewed the data that had come through while he was gone.
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Chapter 19

Yeo walked across the stone bridge, its railings lined with statues of kings and popes and saints. St. Nicholas Cathedral stood on the far side of the bridge.The Castle stood high on the hill on the other.He had visited the cathedral that afternoon.A
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Chapter 20

Everything was a blur. Dink had gotten knocked out no coke and Jameson’s at The Knockout.Dink was trying to find his way home.He got off the elevator at the wrong level. He didn’t realize it till he started walking around the halls,
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Chapter 21

Yeo was sitting in the back of a basement bar, off Old Town Square, waiting for Chuck to arrive.The bar was five hundred years old. During the winter, basements were considered warm places in this part of the world, long before electrical heating.He had been married the night before.
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