The forty-fourth floor of the Croft Tower on Madison Avenue was consumed by an atmosphere of suffocating, electric panic. The emergency board of directors meeting had been convened at eight o'clock on Monday morning. Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, the city was shrouded in dense autumn fog. Inside the boardroom, fifteen senior directors, major institutional shareholders, and corporate attorneys sat around the forty-foot mahogany table, their expressions grim and anxious. At…
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