"Dropping the handbrake and firing the van—producing a loud serpentine belt squeal on the engine that always annoyed Cameron hearing, he shifted the gear level into D and got rolling to exit the parking lot. At this point in his life, he was an experienced enough driver that he could navigate the +852 without a license and probably never get caught—more so given the TETRA radio now sat in his Transit that could listen into HKPF comms if encryption protocols were loose tonight. But he certainly couldn't have managed the work on the clunky Cingular, or the Nothing phone left in Kinky's Panamera, which was actually capable of pulling up the drop-off coordinates for the 18K triads he would rather have faced at a different hour than tonight."

SECURITY ISSUE: TWO WARS, MIDDLE A FENCE

ACT 1A

SEPTEMBER 23 2026

ACT 1A OUT NOW FOR HARDCOVER!