“Is there anything else you can give me?” She showed him her scars, but knew that they could have come from a vicious lover or a motor accident. You could contact the Japanese Foreign Office and check my photo”, she watched him write that down, “and you could phone the real Yui…” “The one in Toronto?” he asked. “Yes, and you could contact my boyfriend in the UK… but that’s about it”. “Yes, well, Miss, er what should I call you?” “Officially, I am Natalya Petrovna Myrskii, but you may call me Youriko, in remembrance of Operation Youriko, which got me and so many others into trouble and was eventually responsible for killing my mother and wrecking our family. It is what William calls me too. But Comrade Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov used to call me Natasha, or his Little Cuckoo, before he

