CHAPTER NINETEEN
11:01 p.m.
United States Naval Observatory – Washington, DC
The next meeting would be short and sweet.
Li Ning, the Chinese ambassador, had just arrived at the house. Susan stood in the study with Kat Lopez.
Ning came in. She was a well-dressed, pretty woman of indeterminate age. Susan knew she was forty-five, but would never guess otherwise. She wore a business suit and her makeup was perfect. Not a hair was out of place. She was very petite, several inches shorter than Susan herself. She gave no indication that Susan had awakened her from her sleep, or that she had even been unwinding at the end of a long, hard day.
No. Eleven o’clock at night was a perfectly normal time for a meeting.
It was a plum assignment, being the ambassador to the United States. Susan also
