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cover stories before we hit the real thing. Agreed, Bill?’

The Witchdoctor nodded, frowning slightly.
‘Captain Bond and Miss Chi-Ho, I would like you to take a good look at the
subjects before you embark on the operation. They will sleep now for at least
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United States’ law here by holding them and refusing them access to their
respective consulates or ambassadors.’ He looked up, sweeping his eyes
around the assembled company. ‘I just felt everyone should be aware of what
we’re doing in case we have to account for our actions at a later date.’

Franks glanced at his notes again. ‘The two subjects are, first a Caucasian
male about your age, Captain Bond, carrying what appears from the
information we have managed to get from the UK, his own British passport. He
is known to us and has worked in the Far East for various countries. His
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allegiance now seems to be to the People’s Republic of China. His name is
Peter Argentbright, which proves that all that glisters is not silver, and he was
born the son of a perfectly respectable doctor and his wife, now deceased, and
brought up in his place of birth, Lymington, in the county of Hampshire,

England.
‘The woman is, like yourself, Miss Chi-Ho, in her late twenties. Her name
is given as Jenny Mo and she is travelling under United States papers, which,
though good, we believe to be forgeries. Their immediate superior is a

General Hung Chow H’ang. We know of him, do we not, sir?’ glancing
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towards M.
‘Indeed we do.’ M dropped his voice. ‘Hung Chow H’ang is general officer
in charge of illegals and works out of the former French Embassy, on Tai ji

chang Street, east of Tien-an-Men Square. It’s in the old Legation Quarter.
There is, and I am speaking from memory, an ornate high red gate with a pair
of stone lions. The buildings are pleasant enough and until quite recently it was
believed they were used to house special guests of the Party. In 1986 we

discovered, through one of our few Chinese defectors, that the former French
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Embassy is, in fact, one of the main training and organisational houses of
CELD. Hung Chow H’ang is an old Party man, skilful, cunning and very good
at his job. Lost an eye in the battles around Peking in ’48, or ’49.’

‘Yes, he is.’ Franks stopped, looked down and then up again, straight at
Bond and Chi-Chi. ‘I understand that you are both aware that the man Lee set
the conditions for meeting the couriers.’

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