Chapters 26-27 Summary

Three-quarters of a mile short of the Jing Shan Sanctuary, Webb/Bourne, fully in "Delta" mode, pulls over his black Shanghai sedan, buries his knapsack, and marks the spot so he can find it again. Approaching the well-lit gate, he laments to the lone guard he is late for trade negotiations and unable to reach Minister Wang Xu. Having shaken Delta down for some binoculars in the lost-and-found, the simple guard agrees, should anyone ask, to say a Frenchman is seeking the minister After Delta departs, an officer whom he has spotted in the woods, emerges, dials a number, and verifies from Wang, that this is an annoying, but harmless, Frenchman, Ardisson. Satisfied he orders the gate opened in anticipation of that car that will pick him up. The guard's relief reminds the officer that he is the son of a...