the market of shadows deals in secrets and favors where political influence is auctioned to the highest bidder unseen but

market shadows deals secrets favors political influence auctioned highest bidder unseen omnipresent clandestine power currency intrigue mystery manipulation control bargaining transactions underground covert trade commerce exchange espionage confidential undisclosed hidden surreptitious backroom veiled obscured invisible concealed discreet covertly incognito undetected unremarked unperceived latent shrouded masked unrevealed cloaked camouflaged enigmatically underhand