Chapter 26
Frank and Maria slowly shuffled forward in separate queues towards the customs checkpoint at Kuala Lumpur airport. Frank had his hair greased back and with his maturing dark stubble, his appearance had changed. He clutched the passport he had managed to get from the young man, Li Wu, in Hong Kong. A smart young Malay customs officer, sitting in a box, gestured him forward and checked his passport. He glanced at Frank and back again at the photograph, then swiftly stamped the page and handed it back, nodding without a word.
Frank waited briefly for Maria to come through and they headed to the luggage collection point together, giving each other a reassuring look. Maria had packed hastily after they had tied up the intruder, cleaned the gun of fingerprints and dumped it in the t
