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Alexandra is on page 138 of 213

“If you had a wife or a kid, sure—but, Marty, you are a sixty-seven-year-old childless bachelor. You don’t even have an _ex_-wife. You are the perfect candidate for the kind of disappearing act we specialize in. Give it a few months and you can even start communicating with these old pals of yours, provided you trust their discretion and take care to use self-deleting encrypted messaging tools. …

— May 27, 2026 12:03AM

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Alexandra is on page 180 of 213

“Even more conspicuous. He was a very bad conspirator. Clearly, he did most of his work with a fountain pen, not a six-gun.”

— May 27, 2026 01:13AM

Alexandra is on page 162 of 213

… I found a seat near a plug and connected my laptop, manually changed my laptop’s MAC address, opened up a Tor session, and started hunting the Zetas’ banker.”

— May 27, 2026 12:51AM

Alexandra is on page 162 of 213

“San Francisco Public Library was the first public library branch in the country to hire a full-time social worker. It loaned out suits and ties for job interviews. It had a coat check that would securely store my bundle buggy. And it had privacy-loving librarians who did not allow the city or the feds to monitor connections to its Wi-Fi, a Wi-Fi connection that accepted Tor sessions. …

— May 27, 2026 12:51AM

Alexandra is on page 162 of 213

“Homelessness is the American vanishing point”

— May 27, 2026 12:47AM

Alexandra is on page 159 of 213

“Bates’s proposal is a death sentence, only slower. Change your name, abandon your friendships, leave your country, live underground until you die. Not because you committed a crime but because Bates doesn’t want to lift his hand to _stop_ the crimes that will arise from doing the honorable thing.”

— May 27, 2026 12:43AM

Alexandra is on page 156 of 213

“‘You lead a very exciting life,’ she said at last. ‘It sounds terrible.’”

— May 27, 2026 12:38AM

Alexandra is on page 151 of 213

“But industrial locks had a much longer duty cycle than bike locks, and changing them out was a nightmare, requiring that new keys be made and distributed to the maintenance people, letting agents, owners, et cetera. How much hassle would a building owner go through to make it more difficult to get into the garbage room?”

— May 27, 2026 12:28AM

Alexandra is on page 148 of 213

“in whatever building I was destined to spend my years in, in Tangiers or Lima or Stockholm”

— May 27, 2026 12:21AM

Alexandra is on page 145 of 213

Dell Duke also used wildlife documentaries to fall asleep…

— May 27, 2026 12:16AM

Alexandra is on page 144 of 213

“Team blue is team minimalism, the Marie Kondo of security. If a procedure does not fill you with joy, remove it and replace it with a simpler one.”

— May 27, 2026 12:11AM