Veale and Conner’s clients, however, appeared strangely unmoved by the new evidence they were turning up. The person who seemed least impressed was Chris Zavos, the punctilious attorney leading the legal team for Talbot and the other hull insurers. A graduate of St. Paul’s, an ultraprestigious private school on the banks of the Thames, he was the detectives’ temperamental opposite in almost every way, and the differences seemed to become more pronounced the longer they worked together. In meetings, Zavos spoke with the precise cadence of a man ever attentive to how his words might be
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