abstract
| - Brad Whitaker is an international black market arms dealer. From his villa in Tangiers, Whitaker conducts his illicit business with various governments and individuals. As would be expected, the villa's grounds are patrolled by armed guards. On arrival, guests are led through a hallway containing a pantheon of "great military commanders", which includes some of history's most famous and infamous figures, such as Adolf Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Attila the Hun. Whitaker holds these men in high regard and calls them "surgeons who removed society's dead flesh". All representations of these "surgeons" (or "butchers" as KGB Head, General Pushkin describes them) are sculpted to resemble Whitaker himself. The villa also contains a further room devoted to military artifacts and a large case containing miniature soldier figurines with which, it is implied, he wargames various historical conflicts such as the battles of Agincourt, Waterloo, and Gettysburg. Contained within automated panels along the side of the case are various prototype weapons the arms dealer intends to sell to prospective clients.
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