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Auteur: Blackthorne
last update Date de publication: 2026-05-21 14:52:36
THE YEARS BEGIN

Fourteen months into his sentence, Silas Vance finally understood what it meant to be invisible.

The federal penitentiary at Callahan was a gray, efficient machine designed to process human beings into compliance. Silas had been assigned to the education wing—a perk that came from his cooperation with the investigation into Marcus Chen's operations. Chen himself had disappeared into the wind, leaving behind a network of shell companies and abandoned money trails. But the evidence
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The Years of Yearning for lost time begins

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