For readers of Phil Klay's Missionaries and Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer: a novel about what happens when careful work becomes a targeting document. Santo Domingo, 1965. The United States has landed thirty thousand troops to prevent what Washington calls "another Cuba." CIA analyst Dani Piedra is building an intelligence ledger, precise and meticulous, that maps a city's political networks by confidence tier and geographic cluster. MP Sergeant Red Thibodeaux is logging every vehicle, every face, every document that passes through his checkpoint on the road to San Isidro. Both of them are good at their jobs. That's the problem. When Dani's ledger passes up the chain and becomes a targeting document, she has to reckon with what her precision actually produced. When Red's checkpoint logs are suppressed, he has to reckon with what his documentation was worth. Neither of them did anything wrong. The institution didn't need them to.