Chapter Thirty-Four
Last Gasp
“This was much easier for young women than it would have been for men.”
The Brillcart Empire stumbled on, seriously wounded and bleeding as one EU law enforcement unit after another raided and eventually destroyed The System’s hideouts and operations centers. The hundreds of young women who were the core of the courier robbing organization were slowly repatriated and short hearings before magistrates in their home countries resulted in a slap on the wrist and no real punishment, given the overwhelming evidence that most, if not all of the women had acted in a combination of fear for their lives and their families and Stockholm Syndrome-like obedience. Because most of the loot was eventually found in Brillcart’s coffers and no violence had been carried out a
