“Unlike the US White House – and more like Britain’s 10 Downing Street – its basic purpose was simply to provide living quarters for the country’s leader, rather than as a seat of government. Even so it was well protected. Its walls were thick, its fences high and spiked. Sensors and cameras and guards inside and out strengthened its defenses, and in a pinch, there was a panic room and a separate tunnel system beneath, to reinforce or escape. Special police parked on every corner of the neighbor...hood and patrolled every street. Its defenses seemed impenetrable. At around midnight, a very large, hunchbacked man in a high-collared trench coat walked down the sidewalk in front of a stately mansion two blocks over, heading toward the first checkpoint. Idly the policeman on duty there watched as he approached, then sighed with relief when the figure turned and entered the large house’s grounds. He went back to watching the football game carried live from South America, happy not to miss one moment.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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