"They would have to either lease the land from you or get your signed permission."
"You would hold the power of life and death over all commercial activities on that land."
"You would be a god there."
After writing these three points, Leo pushed the sheet of paper across the table to Morganfield.
It was all there in black and white.
What was written on it wasn't just ordinary business terms, but a detailed instruction manual on how to sell off the city's sovereignty.
Morganfield picked up the paper.
He looked up, sizing up the young man before him with a completely new perspective.
He had always thought Leo Wallace was a radical idealist, a street fighter who had risen by inciting populism.
He had thought that even if this young man had learned to compromise, it would only be to engage in the usual quid pro quo of politics, trading power for money.
But he was wrong.
