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“Not everyone wants to see the daovernainst it…”

This was also true Preji had startled the country recently when he made public comments critical of the quality of construction, as well as of the graft and corruption connected to the project

“Everyone is looking for soer will continue to roar and the phoenix will rise again, but an ant is insignificant”

The ie and Ho orried that he ht be set up to take a fall to divert bad publicity about the dam

“Our situation is complicated by the fact that the team at Site 518 is international,” Ho continued “Suppose one of them is involved in either the thefts or the deaths?”

“Then you would want to ith the Ministry of Public Security”

“Exactly, and yet we both know that this n relations”

True again The MPS was deeply feared Its agents were notoriously aggressive, and they didn’t follow rules that land, France, or the United States

“What do you want me to do?” David asked

“I want to hire you to look into the disappearance of our artifacts Find the internal to our bureau, I’d like you to keep it that way”

“Absolutely,” David answered “I consider all matters that I take on to be sensitive and private”

“I also need soh whatever ation into Brian McCarthy’s death”

“I have a lot of experience dealing with local security bureaus”

But this wasn’t quite what Ho had in uanxi with the MPS”

“That my wife is eh he was a little surprised by the segue froeneral experience with local police to his very particular connection with Hulan at China’s equivalent of the FBI