Within the Shadows
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Last published Sun, Jun 22, 2025
A secret agent, dead officially, but alive unofficially. She works in a law firm, or an underground for where the government hides their wrongdoings, where the powerful launders their guilt. Now, to meet her is a junior lawyer, another secret agent, who is not a junior after all
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