A Death in China
“The great city slept. Waxen pools of light marked a twenty-four-hour dumpling restaurant that was a nocturnal refuge of the young men and women who drove the number-one buses; a mindless twenty-mile route, back and forth endlessly, along Changan, and nary a turn. Her groin ached deliciously. Her mouth felt bruised. Maybe she had fibbed about going off duty, but she’d told the truth about one thing: she had needed the company. Peking was not exactly swarming with available American men. She year...ned to be back in bed, but the digital clock on the dashboard read 3:15. Linda Greer was late.
She had roused Stratton with a lie, saying her reputation would be ruined if the night guards’ report showed that a visitor to Miss Greer’s apartment had not left. He had gone willingly enough—a goodbye kiss and a hug.
Her route led through the northern quarter of the city, and she knew it by heart. She turned right at a corner marked by a dusty bicycle shop and flashed her lights before a gray metal gate set firmly into the usual Peking-anonymous concrete wall.MoreLess
She had roused Stratton with a lie, saying her reputation would be ruined if the night guards’ report showed that a visitor to Miss Greer’s apartment had not left. He had gone willingly enough—a goodbye kiss and a hug.
Her route led through the northern quarter of the city, and she knew it by heart. She turned right at a corner marked by a dusty bicycle shop and flashed her lights before a gray metal gate set firmly into the usual Peking-anonymous concrete wall.MoreLess
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