“How are the internal complications, anyway? Aren’t the other branches of government getting a little suspicious about all these machinations?”

“Let’s just say that one or two discreet assassinations may still have to be performed,” Khouri said.
Source: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 27 (p. 490)

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