Plot Seed
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Chief Negotiator CLAIRE OSEI has talked down forty-one standoffs. None of them began with a voice she recognised. When a man barricades himself in a Brussels archive building demanding the release of sealed Cold War files, Claire is patched into the call. The voice belongs to her father. His fingerprints are on the wall. His death certificate is in her filing cabinet. Someone has a lot of explaining to do - after she gets her team out.