- BaklavaForewordAllesandra,
- a
- Greek
- Intelligence
- member,
- has
- her
- hands
- full
- trying
- to
- track
- down
- the
- world's
- most
- wanted
- anarchist,
- who'd
- been
- wrecking
- utter
- havoc
- on
- a
- global
- scale,
- and
- who'd
- decided
- on
- a
- cat-and-mouse
- game
- with
- the
- top
- minds
- in
- the
- intelligence
- world."The
- Horsemen".
- Fascinated,
- she
- turned
- her
- attention
- back
- to
- glimpse
- the
- foreword
- of
- the
- two-inch
- book
- that
- she
- had
- clasped,
- and
- flipped
- onwards
- past
- the
- three-page
- index,
- to
- chapter
- one
- again
- -
- after
- absorbing
- the
- gory
- and
- unsettling
- front
- cover.
- "No
- wonder
- it
- was
- banned"
- Allesandra
- whispered.
- The
- glossy
- cover
- depicted
- a
- peculiarly
- sinister
- oil
- painting,
- that
- would
- be
- utterly
- blasphemous
- in
- religious
- circles.
- An
- upright
- and
- worn
- looking
- Bible
- -
- to
- the
- left
- of
- the
- image,
- was
- leaning
- against
- a
- tattered
- looking
- Torah,
- which
- in
- turn,
- had
- leant
- against
- the
- nearest
- of
- four
- wild
- horses
- -
- at
- a
- precarious
- angle
- -
- seemingly
- riding
- out
- of
- a
- smouldering
- crater.
- To
- the
- right,
- a
- Koran
- had
- been
- leaning
- inward
- against
- the
- fourth
- wild-eyed
- horse
- -
- creating
- the
- impression
- that
- holy
- manuscripts
- were
- all
- kept
- upright,
- only
- by
- these
- wild
- horses,
- which
- were
- about
- to
- dart
- away,
- sending
- the
- holy
- manuscripts
- plummeting
- into
- the
- orange
- smouldering
- crater.
- "Missing
- From
- Nicea"
- was
- written
- in
- what
- was
- supposed
- to
- be
- blood,
- gushing
- from
- the
- bottom
- of
- the
- Bible,
- over
- towards
- the
- headquarters
- of
- the
- World Bank.
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