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Late Summer 2012

Gerry kept his eye on a pair of white Europeans sitting across the garden from him at Bishkek’s Jalal-abad teahouse. They looked a bit too professional for his liking; the kind of men he noticed only because it took one to know one.

They hadn’t been following him, as far as he knew, but had arrived no later than five minutes after he ...