Name That Corporation!
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V I's most important client is a man named Darraugh Graham. He played a central role in the novel Blacklist, and a major supporting role in Body Work. Darraugh is the CEO of a fuzzily-imagined conglomerate which I called "Continental United," after doing a name search to make sure there was no such company.
Guess what? There is now a company called Continental United, the merger of those two big airlines. Rather than deal with lawyers and correspondence and all that time-consuming tsuris, I've decided to rename Darraugh's company.
Darraugh is a good guy with impeccable manners. The company name needs to imply something international, but not be tied to a specific industry, since V I's needs to get inside information about different industries changes from book to book.
Come up with the best new name for Darraugh's company, and you will get a V I commemorative flashlight, along with a signed copy of Breakdown.
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Syrinxcor: Syrinx was a nymph who was part of the entourage of the Greek goddess Aretemis. Like all of Artemis' followers, she was pledged to chastity, but when pursued by the goat-god Pan, she pleaded for help, and was changed into a field of river reeds. The frustrated Pan cut the reeds and made them into the panpipe, or syrinx. I thought it apropos since Darraugh is a straight-shooting guy, but can be pragmatic when it suits him and his company. "Chastity" and fastidiousness can still be turned into an opportunity for invention.As far as I know, Syrinx is the name of a type of software, but not of a company.
Sybil International would be better, but there is, alas, a company that comes close: Sybil's International