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In Richard Clarke’s Ten Years Later, the country faces a rash of attacks--on malls, casinos, amusement parks, subways, computer networks, and more--and responds by becoming a police state of sorts. Civil liberties are harshly curtailed; the country teems with security workers and various methods of surveillance; and everything coming in, whether by sea, land, or air, is tightly controlled.

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