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“I’ve found a dozen e of how to drive,” the aide said “We can have the vehicles on the streets of the city as soon as they are painted”

“Good,” Rimpoche said “We need to shoe’re in control”

Right at that instant, he heard a helicopter approaching froar He watched as it passed overhead and headed for Potala

DETECTIVE Po and his Tibetan underlings had just escaped athem Po was now on the outskirts of Lhasa at the east end of the city More andhisthe description of the people he sought, or the Tibetans he and hisBut the situation went deeper than that In the last half hour, Po had felt the tide turn

More andlike the hunted, not the hunter

His last call to the Public Security Bureau had gone unanswered, and although itthe Tibetans assigned to help hi him differently

Right then, a helicopter flew overhead and slowed to touch down on the flats below Potala

“Stop the truck,” Po ordered

The driver slowed and stopped The helicopter was only two hundred yards away and the skids had just touched the ground Straining to watch with his binoculars, Po waited until the dust from the rotor wash had cleared and the occupants cli a helrounds to the other men who had climbed out At that instant, Po saw the man remove a portable telephone from his belt Then he removed the helmet to hear

Po stared through the binoculars The man’s hair orn in a short blond crew cut, but his face was familiar Po watched

“YOU’RE sure, Max?” Cabrillo asked

“I just received confiron

“Good, I’ in,” Cabrillo said

“The media is on their way,” Hanley said, “and the Dalai Lama has already left India Both are due to arrive in Lhasa in just over an hour We need you all out of there posthaste I’ve dispatched the C-130 froet this done—and get out of there”

“All I can say is that you’d better have so