“Turkey and Syria weirding you out?…Folks in Frankfurt made me feel like the Cold War never really went away… — William Gibson

Netherton said nothing, something he’d only recently been learning to deliberately do.

“What’s going on?” asked Manuela, eyeing the container’s door. “Is this a cult? Kidnapping people and telling them somebody’s after them?”

“Let me think about it,” Verity said.

“You’re kidnapped too? Let’s fucking escape!”

“Given this city, and the things most of us do, you’ll have heard that before, ambitious people announcing something innovative, something they believe will drive change, but something they generally haven’t accomplished yet. This isn’t that. This isn’t a pitch.”