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The Real Amount

From The Current Encyclopedia

The Real Amount is a novel by Elias Wrenfield and the fourth book of The Current series. It is a love story about influence and consent, told by Marie Armstrong, who reads people for a living.

Premise

Before her firm buys a company, Marie sits across from the people who run it and works out whether they are telling the truth. She listens under what people say for a note, the way she once listened to an A string a hair flat. Halcyon Bio feels like nothing at all, except in the kitchen on four, where she laughs at a pompous coffee machine and a sad man in a gray suit tells her it wants you to hate it first. When he finally tells her what he can do to a room, she makes one rule: he never does it to her.

Main characters

  • Marie Armstrong. Assessor for Arbor Capital. Point of view.
  • James Vance. The man in the gray suit, on her interview schedule for week four.
  • His boss, the one man in the building she can't read at all.

Connections

  • The same year as Books 1 and 3.
  • The coffee machine on four turns up in more than one book.

See also