"Well, you gotta admit one thing," said Killian in a cheer-up voice, "this thing has made you a giant on Wall Street. One freakin' giant, bro. Juh see what Flannagan called you in the I Daily News! 'Pierce & Pierce's fabled chief bond salesman.' f Fabled. A legend in your own time. You're the son of 'the aristocratic John Campbell McCoy,' former head of Dunning Sponget & Leach. You're the fabled investment banking genius aristocrat. Bacon probably thinks you got half the money in the world."

"If you want to know the truth," said Sherman, "I don't even know where I'm gonna get the money to pay . . ."He motioned toward the library, where Occhioni was. "This civil suit mentions everything. They're even after the quarterly share of profits I was supposed to get at the end of this month. I can't imagine how they knew about it. They even referred to it by the in-company name, which is the 'Pie B.' They'd have to know someone at Pierce & Pierce."