
He built his entire life the way he builds his buildings: load-bearing walls everywhere, nothing unanchored, no room for anything that could fall. Then Julian Voss walked into his conference room and told him the thresh ...
Ch. 9: The Cold Work
Ch. 10: Removal
Ch. 11: The Charrette
Ch. 12: The Building or the Person
Ch. 13: Where It Costs You Something
Ch. 14: The Smallest Beam
Ch. 15: The Architecture of Secrets
Ch. 16: The Word He Didn't Say
Ch. 17: Doing the Work
Ch. 18: All the Way Under
Ch. 19: Conflict of Interest
Ch. 20: The Honest Version
Ch. 21: What the Room Already Knew
Ch. 22: Riverside
Ch. 23: No Assumptions
Ch. 24: By Firelight
Ch. 25: Just You, Then
Ch. 26: The Discreet Clause
Ch. 27: A Polite Word for Shame
Ch. 28: Something Safe
Ch. 29: The Missing Wall
Ch. 30: Where It Costs You
Ch. 31: Tell Him First
Ch. 32: What the Body Admits
Ch. 33: Two Men Who Are Sure
Ch. 34: The Anteroom
Ch. 35: Colleague
Ch. 36: Down to the Word
Ch. 37: Last Chance
Ch. 38: The Vice
Ch. 39: Made Safe
Ch. 40: Unbraced
Ch. 41: The Empty Chair
Ch. 42: Withdraw
Ch. 43: The Complicated One
Ch. 44: Load Path
Ch. 45: Too Late, In Motion
Ch. 46: Empty Plan
Ch. 47: Built From Truth
Ch. 48: The Why
Ch. 49: On the Record
Ch. 50: The Number
Ch. 51: Uninvited
Ch. 52: The Name
Ch. 53: The Room Turns
Ch. 54: On the Chance
Ch. 55: What It Cost
Ch. 56: Adaptive Reuse
Ch. 57: Breaking Ground
Ch. 58: The Open Middle
Ch. 59: Load-Bearing
Ch. 60: The Honest Seam