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Chapter Thirty Seven — Rome Is Burning

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The news broke at eleven.

Not a leak. Not a rumour moving through back channels the way things usually moved in this world ... quietly, deniably, giving the people involved time to manage their exposure before the story became public. This was different. This was a press conference. A senior official from the justice ministry standing in front of cameras in Rome looking like a man who had made a decision in the middle of the night and had spent the morning making sure he couldn't undo it.

His n
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