Chapter 16
Chapter 16

Chapter 16

Everyone Wanted Him Dead

For ten years, I had believed that power was an armor, thick and opaque enough to deflect any stray fragment of the past. But power, stripped of its procedural theatre, was nothing more than an agreement between cowards to look the other way. And now the lights were on.

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