The Distant Promise

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The air in the Grand Hall of the Ministry of Internal Security did not smell of old paper or dust, as the public might imagine, but of a sharp, metallic antiseptic that clung to the back of the throat like a bad memory, a sterile coldness that had been pumped into the ventilation systems for three decades to preserve the integrity of the files and, perhaps more cynically, to suppress the...

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