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The Midnight Passenger

The Midnight Passenger

The meter ticked with the dull, mechanical heartbeat of a city that had long stopped caring about the cost of anything. It was 3:14 a.m. on a Tuesday in 1987. I was leaning against the hood of my Mercedes, nursing a lukewarm coffee, when the man stepped out of the shadows of the Soviet War Memorial.

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