September, 2017: A digital tripwire snaps in the dark servers of New Delhi. A $50,000 transfer from a high-risk node in the Gulf - The sender was a known financier for the Islamic State in Khorasan. The algorithm doesn't just see money; it sees a fuse being lit.

Tactical Brilliance. Strategic Catastrophe.

While the world looked away, Indian intelligence deployed "The Glass House"—an eighty-man surveillance dragnet designed to turn one man's life into a transparent cage.

In this episode, we step inside the van with Agent K, the chain-smoking veteran hunting a "White Collar" terrorist who hides in plain sight. And we walk into the lion's den with Ahmed, the deep-cover operative who must befriend a man building a suicide vest in the next room.

From the suffocating tension of a ground-floor trap house in Lajpat Nagar to the chaotic, narrow lanes of Old Delhi's Hawala markets, witness the anatomy of a perfect sting. Discover how R&AW supplied the chemicals to build a bomb just to prove a student was a killer, and how a surveillance team defused a massacre without firing a single shot.

But in the shadow world, there is no such thing as a clean victory.

They stopped the detonation in Delhi. They thought they had flushed the toxicity out of the system by sending the target to the black hole of Bagram Prison. They were wrong.

August 26, 2021. The US withdraws. The prison gates open. And the ghost returns to Abbey Gate to finish the job.

Listen now to the story of how a war won in the shadows was lost in the sunlight.

Disclaimer: This audio drama is a work of fiction inspired by real historical events, specifically "Operation Glass House" and the subsequent tragedy at Kabul Airport. While characters like "Agent K" and "Ahmed" are dramatisations of real operatives, and the tactical details of the surveillance operation are based on declassified methodologies, dialogue and specific interactions have been created for entertainment purposes. We do not claim that every word you hear is the absolute truth.

Then again, in the world of counter-terrorism, the "absolute truth" is often buried under a pile of redacted files. Only the handlers and the ghosts know what really happened in that safe house in 2017.

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