shadowy Nucko-political bodies
current suspicions were being directed at certain shadowy Nucko-political bodies all the way up in Quebec, far north of the Enfield MA
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Gately's dread routed into the geopolitics: the DuPlessis-killing investigation was "taken over... by something federal the addled stenographer called 'Non-Specific Services Bureau,'" and "current suspicions were being directed at certain shadowy Nucko-political bodies all the way up in Quebec." A South Boston burglary-gone-wrong becomes an Unspecified-Services matter reaching to Québec — the botched robbery of a "Nuck-VIP" (DuPlessis, the A.F.R.'s V.I.P., 016/031) drawing the same federal apparatus that hunts the samizdat. The private terror seeds the blood-ledger of 120.