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given it during a battle at sea.

‘If I don’t go back, Lord knows what they’ll do to Checklist, sir. I have to go
back.’
‘We’ll have a Special Forces assault set up for late afternoon, maybe
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sooner. You
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car heading for the other side of Ghirardelli Square now. It’ll pick you up and
bring you back here so that you can make it in with the assault team.’
‘With respect, it’s a terrible risk, sir. You should also know that they’re
expecting General Hung Chow H’ang in person, tonight. He’s going to oversee

the Jericho business. They are all set up for it – another reason I should go
back.’
There was a long sigh at the other end of the line. Then M replied, ‘Take the
draft in case of trouble, but make it out through the back of the building you’re
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in now. Go through into Ghirardelli Square and meet the car on the far side. Go
straight through under the Indian restaurant and out on to Polk Street. Ten
minutes. Move, Custodian!’
‘Sir,’ Bond acknowledged unhappily, ‘there is another thing you should

know,’ he added quickly. ‘They’re holding the girl, Wanda, somewhere in
Sausalito, and they’ve killed her father, Tony. They threw him to the wolves.’
‘Got it. Now move! Out! Now!’
‘Sir.’ As he cradled the telephone, Bond knew he would be leaving Chi-Chi

to almost certain death.
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‘I have to take the draft, but it’s a just-in-case deal.’ The agent who had been
working on the bank draft handed him an envelope, and Bond had the good
sense to remove the little package of notes exchanged between Chi-Chi and

himself during their Black Magic analysis. ‘Shred those,’ he ordered, ‘and tell
me how I get out of the back of this place and into Ghirardelli Square.’
The agent at the door did not move and the one working the computer was
still tapping away, muttering that it would take an army of accountants to

unravel Black & Black. The agent who had given him the bank draft inclined
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his head to a small door on the other side of the room. ‘Through there, along
the passage and out the back door. That’ll take you to Larkin Street. Cross the
road and go into Ghirardelli through the entrance between the Clock Tower and

Sharper Image.’
Bond moved.
Ghirardelli Square is a colourful little shopping mall named after Domingo

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