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Like all good noirs, this hard-boiled tale, this dark quest for knowledge, was doomed from the start. My object of pursuit, my marketing baby, was nothing more than an apparition, a phantom, though one that pointed to a much bigger but infinitely unknowable conspiracy. Like most noirs, this one has an ambiguous and inconclusive ending.

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Ebeling, M.F.E. (2016). Life After Death. In: Healthcare and Big Data. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50221-6_8

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