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“Shoot”

Selma read off the information

Sam repeated it, and then he re us a larger research vessel? Leonid’s drivingabout it”

“That was the next iteet a two-hundred-sixty-footer, fully equipped with the latest gear It can be there within a week” Selma mentioned a price “Will that work?”

“They understand ant to rent it, not buy it, right?” Sam joked

Selnized the tone: she’d learned so down?”

“Yes, Selma What’s up?”

“I did so on your Japanese colonel’s history Or, rather, on Japanese history that ht be relevant to your man I think I discovered the reason nobody wants to talk about the mysterious Meiji Corps Have you ever heard of Unit 731?”

“No”

“Unit 731 and several associated groups were units of the Japanese ed in experimentation on prisoners and civilians They tested every depravity you can think of—vivisection without anesthesia, freezing or burning victi them with poisons and chemicals for the same reason, you na District, where they had a cos just outside of Harbin, China Unit 731 was run by a Japanese general named Shiro Ishii”

“Shiro Ishii,” Sarin

“The couised as a water purification facility The atrocities went on for ten years Besides the experier contaue Tostory short, the Japanese ele look like Mother Teresa”

“Why haven’t I heard of any of this? You’re describing war crimes that went on for a decade”

“Well, that’s where it gets interesting And, IAfter the Japanese were defeated, the Allies granted the Unit 731 scientists blanket immunity from prosecution And apparently many of the worst offenders went on to become rich and powerful in postwar Japan”

Sam’s tone hardened “Do you have proof of that?”