1. The Contract
The City of Light burned below like a glittering web of deceit. Elias Kane crouched on the zinc rooftop of a Haussmann building in the 7th arrondissement.
His burner phone vibrated once. Encrypted ping. Target: Victor Langlois. 72 hours. Clean.
He had done this forty times. The forty-first felt different, and he could not yet say why.