Authority Friendship If only they could keep

If only they could keep their pickpocketing hands to themselves

and recent refugees from Southeast Asia and the Balkans

slightly altered life re-forms around her

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Authority Friendship If only they could keepSouthern Reach, Book #2 In Authority, the New York Times bestselling second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, Area X's most disturbing questions are answered . . . but the answers are far from reassuring. After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization has been a series of expeditions overseen by a