They were planning on a joint business venture.
Faith's prior worries about s**t hitting the fan with this meeting had moved aside and made way for new worries when it became apparent that Magnus had come here to discuss investing in Omar Karim's global sports-betting business.
To Faith, the older man had seemed quite aloof at the beginning, but that trait only hid how clever he was. As he explained how his multi-million dollar idea had become so successful, Omar revealed a lot but also nothing at all. He managed to get them to understand the inner workings of it all, without actually saying anything specific. No names, no companies, no countries, no banks, nothing incriminating. Just the theory of how giving people the illusion of control allowed him to, in fact, take even more control
