“Secrecy is the potting soil in which all this conspiracy shit grows. Trust me. The roaches don’t like it when you start shining a light on them.”

—  Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 13 (p. 140)

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speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969

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