Nine Days (2013)
“Sydney, Ti-Anna and the girl with the doll showed up after lunch. They helped me downstairs and out the door, where a black government car was waiting. The driver dropped my crutches into the trunk as I settled in the front seat and swung my leg in. The girl with the doll sat in back, between Sydney and Ti-Anna.
“Would somebody explain what’s happening?” I asked, when we were on the road.
Sydney laid out the plan: we would go public with evidence that Chinese agents had lured one of their count...ry’s most famous exiles into a trap in Vietnam, and then kidnapped him and driven him (we supposed) across the border and into a prison in the provincial capital of Kunming. People would be so outraged that the Chinese government would have to admit that they had him in custody.
“And let him go?” I asked “Well …” Sydney hesitated. “Ideally, of course. But if not that, or not right away, at least admit they have him. Maybe eventually they’d allow him to have visitors, and announce the charges against him.MoreLess
“Would somebody explain what’s happening?” I asked, when we were on the road.
Sydney laid out the plan: we would go public with evidence that Chinese agents had lured one of their count...ry’s most famous exiles into a trap in Vietnam, and then kidnapped him and driven him (we supposed) across the border and into a prison in the provincial capital of Kunming. People would be so outraged that the Chinese government would have to admit that they had him in custody.
“And let him go?” I asked “Well …” Sydney hesitated. “Ideally, of course. But if not that, or not right away, at least admit they have him. Maybe eventually they’d allow him to have visitors, and announce the charges against him.MoreLess
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