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Peter
We spend the day before the strike running through the different versions of the plan, calculating success probabilities and coming up with solutions to potential problems. Our plan is risky, but it has a good chance of working—assuming we get the timing right.
By night, we’re as ready as we’re ever going to be, and that’s a good thing, as our client, the Ukrainian oligarch, is getting impatient. In two days, Arslan is supposed to vote on a bill that will all but decimate our client’s business in Turkey, and we have to act before that happens.
As I close my laptop to catch a few hours of shuteye before my shift, Anton calls me over, his tone unusually excited.
“Look at this,” he says, and adrenaline floods my veins as I see a new email from our hackers.
Swiftly, I read throu
