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Casio ons and quietly opened it Min Koryo was propped up in her spacious bed, browsing through a pile of audit reports For afor her to look up and acknowledge their intrusion She looked so pathetic, so fragile, that any other trespassers ht have wavered But not Pitt and Casio

Finally she lifted her reading glasses and gazed at theht Her eyes were fixed in frank curiosity

"Who are you?" she asked simply

"My naator"

"And the other man?"

Pitt stepped frohts above the bed "I believe you know me"

There was a faint flicker of surprise in her voice, but nothing else "Mr Dirk Pitt"

"Yes"

"Why have you come?"

"You are a slimy parasite who sucked the life out of untold innocent people to build your filthy empire You're responsible for the death of a personal friend of hter You tried to kill me, and you ask why I'm here?"

" You areso criminal

My hands are unstained"

" A play on words You live in your museum of Oriental artifacts, shielded frorandson did your dirty work for you"

/>:'You say I am the cause of your friend's death?"

"She was killed by the nerve agent you stole froovernment and left on the Pilottown"