Anatomy of a Sacrifice

Leona stared at the cuffed wrist with a focused gaze—the look of someone who had made a final decision. There were no other options. No safe way out.

She was going to do a self-dislocation. Forcing the wrist joint out of its anatomical position so it could slip out of the cuff.

She had seen this technique once in a Moscow prison five years ago. A political prisoner—a former KGB agent—had managed t