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Three unmarked vehicles raced through the night. Only their headlights illuminated each other and the dark road. The middle vehicle was an armoured prisoner transport van; the other two were fast sedans. Mercedes, all. Reliable.
Inside the van, the prisoner, a radicalised British citizen, Harlan Cole, was manacled to a floor ring. He was handcuffed, his beard scraggly, his hair wild like a bird’s nest. Big, mournful eyes stared at the opposite wall, totally indifferent to the presence of his handlers.
He was being transported to a black site for questioning by MI6.
The contractor facilitating the transfer was Global Security Services. Despite its bland name GSS was a behemoth, with 65000 employees in offices over the world, directly or indirec
