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“More than fifty health clinics in some of the poorest third world countries in the world—Sierra Leone, Togo, Albania, Haiti, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and several in China—where they receive a lot of governine”

“That’s an interesting case,” Mark Murphy interjected, with his mouth half full of food “The Chinese hate cults with a passion They crack down on practitioners of Falun Gong all the ti it as a threat to the central party rule, but they allow the Responsivists because of their whole population-control thing” Under a ragged deni up with I’M WITH STUPID below it

“Beijing knows they could be a threat but are willing to risk it because the Responsivist presence gives a little Western legitimacy to their draconian one-family, one-child policy” Eddie said Given his experience inside China, no one doubted his assessment

“Back to helping Kyle,” Juan said, to rammer?”

“We have,” Linda Ross replied “Technically, we are kidnapping Kyle, so we need to get him out of Greece as quickly as possible to avoid any problems with local police The counselor willthe Gulfstream from the Riviera to the Athens airport to fly him to Italy We have rooms reserved at a hotel near the Colosseu former Responsivists return to a norather, he’s the best in the world”

“Was he a raainst,others overcome their addiction

“No, but he’s roup down He’s helped more than a two hundred people escape Responsivism in the past ten years”

“And before that?”

“A private-practice therapist in LA Not that it matters, but his fee is fifty thousand dollars, plus expenses He guarantees, however, that, when he’s finished, Kyle will be back to normal”

“He darumbled

“For soroup ,” Eddie said “How many members are there?”

“On their official website, they claim there are more than a hundred thousand ide,” Linda replied “Jenner’s site said that that estinificant nu on the bandwagon, recruitment is up as people copy the stars”

“Just so I know in case I meet him, what cover story did we use in our approach of Jenner?” Juan asked

“I have it all here in my report” Linda held up a binder “Max is a real-estate developer froet his son back We are the private security company he’s hired to coordinate his return Jenner’s assistant was pretty nonplussed when I laid out our story, so I have a feeling this is so they’ve seen before”

“Okay, so once we grab Kyle we get him to the airport, where Tiny Gunderson flies to Rome, and we hand hiht “They’ll have control of his passport, so we need to make a new one”