Chapter 8: Numbers That Disagree

Reyes found the discrepancy on a Tuesday, at eight in the morning, before Nora had finished her first coffee, which was, she would think later, exactly the wrong time to be handed a problem that undid three years of careful methodology in a single spreadsheet column. "I want to show you something," he said, turning his laptop around on the folding table, "and I want you to tell me I'm reading it...