The Ghost Shift (2015)
“He was traveling under his own name, so he didn’t need to check his passport. A Canadian diplomat, a French businessman, a British executive. He’d lived all of those lives in the past and shredded them.
He passed the Hong Kong checkpoint and walked with the crowd over the bridge. Apartments towered over the border from the mainland, where once there’d only been farmland. Every square inch of Shenzhen was occupied, although green hills and paddy fields remained in the New Territories on the Hong... Kong side. He peered through the windows to the waterway that divided the two Chinas. It still looked scary, with high walls and boats patrolling the water to stop anyone swimming across. But it wasn’t the old days—it was easy now to get a visa to visit relatives or to go shopping in Central. On the mainland, a blue-shirted border official compared Lockhart’s face to his passport and took his photo. Then he tore the entry form in two, slotting one of the sections back into his passport.MoreLess
He passed the Hong Kong checkpoint and walked with the crowd over the bridge. Apartments towered over the border from the mainland, where once there’d only been farmland. Every square inch of Shenzhen was occupied, although green hills and paddy fields remained in the New Territories on the Hong... Kong side. He peered through the windows to the waterway that divided the two Chinas. It still looked scary, with high walls and boats patrolling the water to stop anyone swimming across. But it wasn’t the old days—it was easy now to get a visa to visit relatives or to go shopping in Central. On the mainland, a blue-shirted border official compared Lockhart’s face to his passport and took his photo. Then he tore the entry form in two, slotting one of the sections back into his passport.MoreLess
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