If something ever needed to be done to Nikolai’s family, it would be done by someone else. The President did not need to know where the people he’d decided to kill lived, or what their names were, or how they had been killed. The power of someone like Krotov was the kind that required knowing the details of Nikolai’s family life. The power to not know such things was the kind of power the President had: to destroy others in perfect ignorance of the details.
