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any chance against this particular evil.’

‘You’re suggesting that Brokenclaw Lee is behind the disappearance of
these Lords and Lords Day specialists?’
‘I would have thought it was obvious by now,’ M said tartly. ‘Yes. Our
service was only brought in when In
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the connection.’ He looked pointedly towards Ed Rushia, silently ordering him
to continue.
The American took a deep breath, ‘Gee, James, what can I tell you? When
the first coupla guys went AWOL nobody bothered. People go AWOL all the

time, but when two more disappeared everybody got jumpy, particularly as
they were interconnected. Then number five went off into the wide blue yonder
and all hell broke loose. I’m just fillin’ in the blanks for you, mind, ’cos I
wasn’t around at the beginning, though we had some mighty smart hombres
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working on it. Guys that look in their rear-view mirrors and do all those things
that just make me plain nervous.’
Rushia waved a large hand in the general direction of the desk at which M
was sitting. ‘The files of the fearless five, the guys who went missing, are there

for your inspection, and you’ll see for yourself that all five who became the
victims in Trojan Horse were very smart cookies. Trojan Horse is the crypto
for the investigation into the missing experts, and you’d better believe they
were experts. Between them they could pass on most of the working secrets of

Lords and Lords Day. The first thing we did was to check and double-check
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the backgrounds of each member of the quintet. We particularly looked for
weaknesses which could possibly be used as levers for what you consider to
be outdated techniques. Just in case these people were turned in the old-

fashioned sense. Then we spent a long time looking into their habits. Came up
with some names and numbers, as they say. Three of the guys were buddies and
spent a lot of time at The Broken Dragon – that’s a kinda Chinese eating place-
cum-cat house. They were there on the night they went AWOL. Each one of

them was last seen at The Broken Dragon. Guess who owns that joint? And
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guess who was there on at least two of the occasions when guys disappeared?’
Bond simply nodded. Brokenclaw Lee was the obvious connection.
‘So,’ Rushia held up his left hand and counted off the fingers, ‘Lieutenant

Lindsay Robertson, Lieutenant Daniel Harvey and Senior Technician Billy Bob
Heron all frequented The Broken Dragon with dangerous monotony. We can put
Robertson and Harvey there within two hours of them going AWOL, and there

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