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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Without naming names, I wish to give a HUGE shout-out of THANK YOU to the two people without whose help and patience this story would not have been possible. You know who you are...
The orders were unequivocal.
He stared at them. His mouth, habitually described by his few surviving detractors as tighter than a trap, compressed still further.
"Archer is dangerous to us.
"Get rid of him."

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