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EXTRACTION & INTERROGATION
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2026-03-16 14:59:07PART ONE: THE TAKING
9:47 PM - The Plaza Hotel, ManhattanThe penthouse door opened without a key because Ghost had already handled that part. He'd slipped inside twenty minutes earlier, wearing a maintenance uniform, moving with the mechanical precision of a man who'd spent seven years learning how to be invisible inside systems designed to trap people like us.The commission members were leaving. I could hear them in the hallway beyond their voices car
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