The Bourne Retribution
“The rear door opened as he approached and, ducking inside, he slammed the door behind him. The instant he sat, the SUV nosed out into the incessant traffic. “All went as planned,” said the tall, thin man who sat beside him. His face bespoke his Manchu blood lineage. He had the delicate long-fingered hands of a surgeon or a pianist.Why not? Ouyang thought. The man was an artist.“And how did you make out at the summit of the Middle Kingdom?” From anyone else’s mouth the question would have had a ...sardonic edge, but not this man.“Kai,” Ouyang began, “the Patriarch may indeed come around to our way of thinking, but for the moment he remains lost in the clouds.”“Pity,” Kai said with a sigh. “The old man used to be a visionary of extraordinary usefulness.”“His time may not yet be past,” Ouyang said a touch too sharply.“Time,” Kai said, clearly not taking offense, “is what we have the least of. In less than a week the Party Congress will convene to elect a new Politburo, which will map out the next ten years of China’s future.MoreLess
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