THE LISTS discussion

"I study his pink, manicured fingers, the fingers of a man who has never had to do any real work. One look at his skin and you can tell he has been fed on a steady diet of bootleg Scotch whisky, chicken korma and an endless supply of his agency's safe-house whores. Look into his sunken cobalt-blue eyes and you can tell he is the kind of man who picks up a phone, makes a long-distance call and a bomb goes off in a crowded bazaar. He probably waits outside a house at midnight in his Corolla with its headlights switched off while his men climb the wall and rearrange the lives of some hapless civilians. Or, as I know from personal experience, he appears quietly at funerals after accidental deaths and unexplained suicides and wraps things up with a neat little statement, takes care of any loose ends, saves you the agony of autopsies and the foreign press speculating about decorated colonels swinging from ceiling fans. He is a man who runs the world with a packet of Dunhills, a gold lighter and an unregistered car."

This quote shows a faint glimpse into the extent of corruption capable of being conjured up by a single Pakistani agent. It briefly describes his psychopathic mind and the amount of power he is entitled. It also hints at how he was involved in the mysterious suicide of Ali Shigri's father.

An adequate symbol for this chapter would be Ali's father hanging lifelessly from a ceiling fan. This is a relevant picture paved thickly onto this chapter. The mysterious circumstances surrounding his father's untimely suicide are a heavy cause of suspicion. Something like this must only have been orchestrated by the higher ups, who had much to gain from this venture.

Haiku:
Morning cover-ups
Nightly disappearances
I'm living the dream...