he wanted me to offer it directly to a guy named farhan al-asmari. et the price at 25 thou. gave me the guy's private e-mail address and everything. he specifically wanted the book sold to al-asmari? did you think that was odd? no. i get asked to help sell something, i do it. no questions. the odd part was that he said i could keep all the money. said it was a bonus for all the work i'd done for him in the past. he didn't end up making a penny. i don't get it. someone kills travis unger to get a pirate's logbook, and the only people it ends up helping are a 14-year-old girl and a saudi billionaire. and it doesn't look like either one of them is our perp. what if the point wasn't to help anyone? what if it was to harm? arranging for hope neligan to pass black peter's logbook to al-asmari didn't just profit those two parties-- it insured the utter failure of a third, lars vestergaard. his expedition to the santa leticia was for nothing. i mean, he didn't just miss out on the treasure-- he cost his investors millions. so what if the killer'