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call it, can backfire. To tell you the truth, Ed, I’m more worried for her than

anything.’
‘Pretty rich, coming from you, Bond,’ M huffed. ‘I suggest you just stay silent
while we tell you exactly what Ms Man Song Hing has uncovered for us. More
to the point
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Brokenclaw.’
Bond, a shade on his dignity, nodded, folded his arms and waited, glancing
from one to the other.
Rushia began. ‘First thing you should know is pretty obvious. Brokenclaw

Lee is almost paranoid about treachery – treachery to him personally. He has a
very few people who work at close range with him and most of them are pretty
weird with names like Big Leu and Luk See. There are others. Among his
heavies are a couple of charming Chinese called Bone Bender Ding and
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Frozen Stalk Pu. Try those on for size. But the one thing Wanda was really able
to establish is that Lee does not trust his masters in China. There’s no doubt
that he’s put a nice package together with most of the details of Lords and
Lords Day. But it appears that he does not trust any of his own mob to deliver

the stuff to CELD.’ He looked towards M, as though asking permission to
continue. M gave him a small affirmative nod.
‘So, James, CELD are sending their own couriers to analyse the material on
the spot and take it out of the country.’

‘When?’
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M answered, ‘Very soon, 007. In fact, they’re here already.’
‘In the US?’
M nodded. ‘You see, Cuckoo, as I would rather call her, made certain that

she overheard some of the more sensitive conversations. First she heard of
visitors expected between 27th of this month and 7th October. There was no
firm date. When she gave us this information she also told us that, because of
his paranoia about betrayal, the couriers were to be led quite a dance before

they actually got to Mr Lee. Incidentally, his is a wise paranoia – the price of
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freedom, so to speak. It is the motive force behind his ability to appear and
disappear almost at will. You have to be alert constantly, have a fine-tuned
instinct and a lot of the aforesaid paranoia to do that.’

‘The couriers,’ Bond prompted. ‘They came in from China?’
‘From Beijing to Hong Kong, Hong Kong to Tokyo, then JAL into New York.
Cuckoo’s information was that, as soon as they arrived in New York, they were

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