Welcome, lurker! Glad you're participating in this project :) I actually just finished The City And The City! I read it right after I finished work on this story. I like the way his head works -- it works like mine works. :D

It's good that the prologue hooks you in -- I did kind of worry it would be boring. As for the "stole one of theirs line", lol, I can see how it would be implied -- I just meant "stole one of their members" (that story comes out later -- Colin got one of their guys sent upstate) but wow, holy inadvertent implication Batman.