he himself had had no idea of the windfall that was awaiting him when he had been urgently summoned to new york by garnet wendelsons solicitor , immediately after the billionaires fall ; he had not contacted kim since his departure - not through want of trying , just because of what he had presumed had been the vagaries of the international phone network - and there was no one else that he knew in pyongyang whom he could think of who could have acquired such knowledge .