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One of the three overlooking the room below spoke softly into a

microphone, ‘Okay, twenty-two and twenty-six start selling. Offload all the
stuff you bought when the market opened. Just dump it. You have to remember
that we’re playing with monopoly money, but the clients out there have the real
stuff on thei
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‘We really only wanted to see if anyone had an advanced scientific
calculator.’ Brokenclaw sounded almost apologetic.
‘I’ve got a Texas Instruments calculator. You want to borrow it?’ from one of
the controllers.

Chi-Chi replied, saying she would only need it for a short time, and the
small calculator was handed back towards her.
As they left, one of the other controllers was saying, ‘Watch it thirty-two,
your gilt-edged are starting to drop. Buy up all you can get your hands on. Do it
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now, quickly. We can dump them again later; they’ll begin to rise as you buy,
then we sell and the bottom’ll drop out for a while.’
‘They seem very efficient.’ Chi-Chi managed to remain composed during the
return to the study.

‘They’re well trained. They’ve all worked on the stock market, and I had
them recruited for their skill.’ Brokenclaw gave a sinister little chuckle. ‘They
also have motivation. Everyone in that lab has a reason for hating the Stock
Exchange. They’ll shout with joy when Wall Street comes tumbling down.’

‘I bet they will,’ muttered Chi-Chi.
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Lee left them together in his study, saying that when they were finished with
the Black Magic material one of them should just press six on the telephone
and they would be put straight through to him.

They sat, side by side, the Black Magic papers between them, and the pads
and pens which had appeared during their absence, directly in front of them.
Chi-Chi glanced through the first five sheets lying open between the leaves
of the leather folder, then wrote quickly on her pad, ‘What in hell’s going on?’

Bond also riffled through the first five sheets, looked at what she had written
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and added—

Operation Jericho was not supposed to be even on the cards yet. It’s a long term plan for tapping
into the New York Stock Exchange and causing an unnatural economic disaster over a period of
days or weeks. It is aimed at bringing about a complete collapse of the dollar which will in turn hit
most of the world’s other major currencies. The Japanese thought of it first, but it seems One-Eye
plus our man are going to do it quite soon.

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