When villain Yar Badshah meets and browbeats his jittery backers, the mood is pure film noir - all hard lights, deep shadows and coughing smokers.

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The spot did not show a Jeep, just its red brake lights and blinker as it burrowed under the deep snow and stopped at a stop sign.

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Once again, he sees them smiling and then he sees them walking away down a street where yellow lights scatter and regroup sporadically, without any obvious pattern, although Henric knows deep down that everything is determined in some way, everything is causally linked to something else, and human nature leaves very little room for the truly gratuitous.

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