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    The nation of Essempi was built upon three fundamental pillars: connections, power, and, most importantly, rank. In a world this ruthless, anyone who failed to understand the game would be swallowed whole.

    Fortunately for Tommy, this has been drilled into his head since the day he was born.

    Smart, adaptable, and far more cunning than people gave him credit for, he learned how to survive within Essempi’s rotting system—so well, in fact, that he eventually became the one pulling the strings in this crumbling society.

    But with a state of mind that reflected the condemned and decaying nation that surrounded him, how long would it truly take before the strings in his own head pulled too tight—

    —and snapped him apart.

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