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Lucas
Esguerra notifies me that Nora’s parents wish to fly out first thing in the morning, and I decide to do exactly what I told Rosa: go to Ukraine directly after taking them home. I’m still not fully recovered, but the workload from the Chicago disaster is easing up, and my ribs can heal in Ukraine just as well as here.
Now I need to break the news to Esguerra and fill him in on everything I’ve learned about UUR.
“So let me get this straight,” Esguerra says when I stop by his office and explain about the black site. “You want to take a dozen of our best-trained men to conduct an operation in Ukraine when we’re still trying to recover from all the losses? What’s the urgency on this?”
“They’re in the process of covering their tracks,” I say. “If we wait much longer, they’ll be muc
