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The three senior officers grew quiet, and Cummings and Taylor looked down, with Cummings fidgeting slightly. Then Dennison, in a soft and deliberate voice, asked Enrique, “Do you know who died in the Pentagon that day, Kiki?” When Enrique didn’t respond, Dennison said with his voice rising a bit, “Soldiers and sailors died that day, Kiki. Fifty-five in all, plus a bunch of military contractors. American soldiers and sailors! Soldiers and sailors who never got the truth of their sacrifice in a court of law!”

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The sun rose early through the scattered fog. During a brief break in the fog, Rachel stared out from her balcony and could see the city as it spread out southwesterly toward the peaks of nearby Cabuyao and Santo Tomas, guarding the western entrance to Baguio. She turned directly south and viewed the willow trees surrounding the manmade lake in Burnham Park beneath her, home to a few early-morning joggers and walkers. en, the sky darkened and a light rain began.

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Maddie Cochran gazed intensely at the monitor at her desk at Vauxhall Cross. She couldn’t believe that 2013 was nearing its end, with the damp, cold weather already setting in. She had been at MI6 headquarters for about six months after spending over four years in Cairo, her longest assignment yet. On the screen was an image of Mark Luck, the Global News reporter who had been accused of complicity in her sister’s death by Alain de Couillon, the reporter with Press Libre. She had read the reports of her death so many times she almost had them memorized, and she was angry that no serious investigation of Laura’s death had occurred since she was killed over two years earlier, despite protests from her family and many of her sister’s left-wing colleagues in the media. Nothing could be expected out of Libya, with the chaos following Gaddafi’s ouster continuing unabated. But why hadn’t anyone in the British judiciary bothered confronting Luck or at least sought information from him?

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