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The sun had long set by the time Jack Burden reached the outskirts of Mason City. His mind whirled with the hectic events of the day; meeting with Willie Stark had left him both troubled and intrigued. Stark, a man of dynamic charisma and brutish ways, had an unnerving way of making a man examine his own conscience.

In the dimly lit corner of a Soho pub, Verloc sat, feeling a sense of unease. His recent encounter with Mr Vladimir had not gone as planned. A demand was placed on Verloc, an anarchist, to provoke a response from the British government. The Russian ambassador wanted him to orchestrate a bombing, aimed specifically at the Greenwich Observatory.

In the far reaches of the Arctic, a discovery was made by a team of NASA scientists that utterly shattered our understanding of the cosmos. An unknown metallic object was found deeply buried within the ice, radiating an eerie, otherworldly glow. The nature of this object was indeed heavily reminiscent of the objects uncovered in Dan Brown's 'Deception Point'.