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""What do you call the men who raise you, protect you, play with you - and kill for a living?"" Some childhoods are complicated. Some are scarred. And then there are childhoods so extraordinary in their contradictions that no amount of fiction could have invented them. This is the story of one such childhood, and what happened to the boy at the centre of it when the world he had been carefully fed began to fall apart. He grew up inside extraordinary wealth. He had animals most children only see in books, space beyond any child's imagination, and men around him at all hours who laughed with him, played with him, and tucked him in at night. He called them his nannies. He trusted them completely. What he did not know, for years longer than anyone should have been able to keep it from him, was that those men were trained killers. That the warmth they showed him was real, and the blood on their hands was equally real. And that the man who had arranged all of it, the man he called his father, was building something so vast and so violent that it would eventually consume everything around it, including the childhood that had been constructed to keep his son from ever knowing the truth. This book follows that boy from the beginning. From the gilded compound that was both his home and his cage, through the years of accumulating awareness that something enormous was being hidden from him, through the violence that could no longer be kept at the edges of his life, and finally through the devastating reckoning of losing the person he loved most to the consequences of who that person actually was. It is a story about loyalty and what it costs. About love and what it cannot excuse. About the particular damage done to a child who is protected so completely from a truth that, when it finally arrives, it arrives all at once and without mercy. It examines one of history's most powerful criminal enterprises not through the headlines it generated or the body counts it produced, but through the eyes of the one person inside it who never had a choice about being there. Some people are born into circumstances they did not choose and cannot escape. What they do with those circumstances is the only story that ultimately matters. This one will stay with you long after the last page.

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