"I destroyed a man's career because he was a thief." Emir's voice did not rise; it flattened, which was worse. "Do you want to know what is in those documents? Four years of what he called private-list fees, taken from patients who were on the state list, for operations they were entitled to have for nothing. Nine hundred and six thousand lira. He told a woman from Sultanbeyli that her husband would wait fourteen months for a bypass unless she found forty thousand. She found it. She sold a taxi. The husband died anyway, in November, on a Tuesday, and Baykal was in Bodrum. Would you like the woman's name? I have it. Fatma Ozer. You could go and ask her whether I have wronged anyone."
Zara did not say anything.