Chapter Two: The One-Pound Auction

If they find something, it stays at eight and the club pays for treatment.” It was a bet no rational executive could reject. Van der Veer studied him, then signed. At four that afternoon, the results arrived: early viral myocarditis. The doctor said another high-intensity match could have ended catastrophically. De Jong's wife cried as she embraced him in the hospital corridor. Van der Veer looked at Lu as if seeing him for the first time. “You found that in video?” “I saw the risk.” “Crown Athletic's analytics department also suggested monitoring him, but their report was nowhere near as precise.” “Who issued it?” Van der Veer opened the email. The sender was Oracle Sports. At the end of the attachment number sat a minor code: C0.