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‘Unless you drag me back to base and put me under arrest, yes. Yes, I’m

going, whatever.’
‘How would it be if I sent you on a ten-day furlough? I do have that
authority.’
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‘Okay, I’ll write you up when I get back to base. Apart from that we didn’t
have this conversation. You just asked me for ten days’ compassionate, right?’
Wanda nodded. ‘Right,’ she said.

The Broken Dragon had two entrances, one at the rear leading on to the dark

little courtyard where FBI Agent Malloney would eventually meet his brutal
end, the other straight off the crowded street. This was the main entrance, but
there were no signs or gaudy advertising telling the world what lay behind the
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ordinary door.
In spite of The Broken Dragon’s existence being public knowledge among

those who sought to gamble or use the other, more personal, services afforded
by the place, it had only been raided twice in the past five years. The team
working on Trojan Horse considered that this fact was proof of some kind of

police protection, but nobody had ever been able to prove any such thing.
The other possibility was that the police and other agencies felt it better to
allow the place to operate freely. There was never any serious trouble directly
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find somewhere to gamble and pick up hookers anyway so it might just as well
be at a well-run establishment. But, again, if this was the case, it pointed to a
certain lack of enthusiasm with regard to putting Brokenclaw Lee away for a
very long time, for it was known that of all his supposed illegal ventures in San

Francisco The Broken Dragon was one of his favourite haunts.
At a little before midnight, Wanda and Tony Man Song Hing were deposited
from a taxi on to the sidewalk in front of the unprepossessing door that was the
entrance to The Broken Dragon. Wanda had dressed for the occasion in a tight,
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elaborately embroidered silk cheongsam, which showed off her figure to its
greatest advantage, but she had been careful to choose one with a side slit that
ended modestly below the knee.
Her father was dressed in a powder-blue double-breasted suit, a cream silk

shirt with a Sulka tie, cream with diagonal blue stripes. On his feet he wore
expensive snakeskin shoes and his fingers were decked with his most

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