Chapter 11 (pages 160-175) Summary

Henry remembers years ago working an assignment with Pete Ichibata. Their target was a Chinese graduate student in the United States. The student organized protest rallies in opposition to the Chinese government. Pete befriended the student and gained his confidence. When Pete asked if the student worried that his family back in China might suffer because of his activities in the United States, the student said his family had moved away and is safe. The student did, however, worry about a girlfriend still at a university in China. He stopped writing to her so that the Chinese government would not know that was someone he cared about.

Henry knows that Kwang's campaign staff members are not naive like the graduate student and that he will have to use much more subtle means to gather information. Kwang's campaign routinely collects...