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It's bad enough most of the force is on the take, or shaking down people for crossing the street wrong,
Memory Boy,
Everyone eventually ended up on the take.
"We in the Pot don't speak with police," she said. "You know why." Paix nodded. A century of abuse and betrayal bred cold emnity.
queendom.
"Children were being sold there. The sight horrified me." "Can nothing be done?" Paix sighed, relaxed into her arms. "Too many people want it. The Pot rags claim the children act willingly, but ‒"
poorhouse,"
the poorhouse
I had somewhat of a reputation for discovering the invisible.
And how I longed to go back where people accepted me, where I belonged.
caliphate.
exfil
hyperreal;
Identifying all the points of ingress and egress.
holosight.
cordite.
black site
fundamentalist Wahhabi doctrine.
Kafkaesque.
outflanking
felt dirty. The kind of dirt that stained her psyche and couldn’t be washed off with ease.
It’s not paranoia if they’re really out to get you…
Blue Zone.
loudhailer,
ordnance.’
spook
backchannels
tradecraft
atmospherics
bloodlust.
kinetic
Kiwis
We will work together on developing this kill chain.
secession
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”‘
black.’
They were former Metsada operatives, dedicated to chasing down threats to Israel and terminating them with extreme prejudice.
are, they were actually forward observers for Israel, embedded to keep tabs on the civil war unfolding in Malaysia.
‘Politically poisonous?’
‘If this op aligns with our moral compass, then we care not about politics.’
SecureDrop — an encrypted platform favoured by whistle-blowers
‘So we’re freezing him out.’
Either way, it’s a prickly issue.’
Christchurch...’
trawling
subterfuge.
black-bag op.
attrition