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active. ‘You need rest,’ the doctor added, and he was given a stateroom near

the hospital area.
They had brought all his clothes and travelling equipment to the carrier, so
he showered, first in scalding water, rubbing himself down with Clinique soap,
which he had only recently discovered, and now preferred to
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ever used before. Next he showered again, this time in cold water, allowing
the sharp needlepoints of the spray to wash away any excess oil in his opened
pores. He towelled himself dry, and splashed Penhaligon’s cologne over his
body. Only then did he realise how exhausted he had become. He slept until a

steward brought him coffee at ten the next morning.
Half-an-hour later Bill Tanner came down with the ASP 9mm. ‘They found it
among some other weapons in the bunker. You okay now?’
‘They must have salvaged it from the helicopter wreck, Bill. Yes, I’m fine.
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How’s Chi-Chi?’
‘Walking wounded, but you’re both expected up in M’s cabin for a
conference in an hour.’
Bond hefted the pistol in his hand. ‘You get me some shells for this thing?’

he asked.
Tanner said he would try and, in fact, handed over a small box of
ammunition when Bond arrived at the day cabin that M had used throughout as
his headquarters.

The Curve operations team was all present – M, Franks, the CIA man, John
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Grant with a couple of his men, the officer commanding the Special Forces
unit, Commander Edwin Rushia, Chi-Chi and Bond.
M outlined the situation by congratulating all who had taken part in the

tracking down, penetrating and assaulting what he called Brokenclaw’s
burrow. Then he gave them what he called a Profit and Loss balance sheet.
‘On the profit side, we have managed to break up a complex and
sophisticated hideout, which the man Brokenclaw Lee has undoubtedly used

for a long time,’ he began. ‘Also on the profit side a very serious operation has
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been stopped in its tracks. Both my own Service and the CIA have long been
aware that the Chinese, following sight of a similar plan which appears to have
been formulated by Japanese businessmen, have been coordinating an

operation which we all knew as Jericho. Its aim was to bring down Wall
Street by hacking into the Stock Exchange computers, buying, selling, altering
prices surreptitiously.

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