BrandenburgJoseph Volkmann, a member of a secret European security force, finds links between several international crimes that may be the basis for a conspiracy that has shut down societal progress in the modern world.
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\Bran"den*burg\, n. [So named after Brandenburg, a province and a town of Prussia.] A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe. He wore a coat . . . trimmed with Brandenburgs. --Smollett.
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