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But he does an excellent job of squaring the fading man before his eyes—the soppy grandparent and proud father—with the “shadowy, mysterious, sometimes frightening, often absent” stock figure from his youth.

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Scenes switch effortlessly from Prague, with its shadowy bridge looming over the Moldau, to a Brooklyn tenement, a busy office, a tony art gallery, and the roof of the Empire State Building.

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Like many things in the shadowy world of cyber crime, an insider threat is something very few people have experience of.

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Besides being able to stop time temporarily, the shadowy character also serves another function in Borderland.

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This was not the work of a lone assassin, the dictator declared; a vast, shadowy opposition conspiracy was responsible.

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