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An unseen force is destroying the air and the seasons; at the same time, money's going bad, and no one knows why. Power is flowing away from governments, and pooling in the offices of theocrats, the coffers of conglomerates, the hands of mobs. Something is at work, very quietly, very subtly, says merchant Mustafa Bey, keeping a watchful eye on the Silk Roads from his seat in an Aleppo cafe.
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