He walked to the edge of the tent and watched the busy Belgian doctors inside and the wounded who kept groaning. Victor had purged these tumors in Mexico, but they hadn't disappeared; they had just scattered to other bleeding wounds around the world and begun to fester. And now he was supposed to deal with these gun-toting desperadoes from back home, here in the quagmire of Africa. It was a brutally ironic turn.
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Scotland, Glasgow, the "Rebirth District" construction site on the south bank of the Clyde River.
This had once been derelict shipyards and factories, now designated as the first smart-city pilot project jointly run by the Scottish Autonomous Government and the "Mexico-Scotland Joint Development Company."
