A Voss and Pike Casefile: The First Case
Section 25: Conrad Lyle
Thorncastle Strategic Insights occupied two floors of a glass building that could have belonged to any industry at all - the specific anonymity of money that didn't want to be looked at too closely. Conrad Lyle met you in a meeting room with a pitch deck already queued up on the screen, as though he'd been expecting exactly this conversation eventually.
"Project Candour is a community cohesion research partnership," he said, "fully compliant with every regulation that currently exists. I appreciate Professor Hume had become uncomfortable with it. Discomfort isn't evidence of wrongdoing, Dr Voss. It's occasionally just evidence of a man getting older and more sentimental about a field he helped professionalise."