Captain Nasir Al-Mansouri

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Captain Nasir Al-Mansouri arranges seized ledgers across his cabin table like a surgeon preparing instruments, his scarred hands moving with mathematical certainty—then he burns three pages without reading them, watching the ash drift toward the porthole with the satisfied expression of a man erasing debts that were never meant to be collected. His left ear bears a notch from a cutlass that nearly took his life; instead it took his hearing in that ear, leaving him perpetually angled toward conve

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The Fibonacci sequence governed every decision Fouad Al-Mansouri made as Beirut's most meticulous demolitions expert during the 1976 siege—including the calculated spacing of charges that brought down a militia stronghold while leaving his own family's bakery untouched three buildings away. Nasir learned to read his father's demolition blueprints like musical scores, watching him sell structural weaknesses of crumbling Ottoman mansions to insurance companies who paid handsomely for "accidental" collapses that cleared valuable land. When a rival engineer's miscalculation buried Fouad under the very mathematics he'd mastered, sixteen-year-old Nasir inherited both his father's actuarial genius and his client list—a network of corrupt adjusters, black market architects, and bureaucrats who dealt in the precise orchestration of profitable disasters. Twenty-two years later, Captain Al-Mansouri commands a crew of former insurance investigators and displaced engineers, men who calculate the ex

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