“I guess they just want a new way. They’ll deliver the stuff to me here in Moscow. I’ve already set up a way to get it from here to Bucharest, Romania. There’s enough traffic in and out of there so that pickups can be made easily.”
Suddenly I was very interested. I was glad I had taken the time to talk to him again. It sounded to me like something that would interest the men back in Washington. Maybe the Chinese wanted to develop a new route and maybe they had a little double-cross in mind, since things were going so badly between them and Russia.
“How do you know your contact can deliver? Who is he?”
“His name is Chen Huang, and he’s a regular member of the trade commission.
He’s already brought me a sample—pure stuff.”
“How are you going to get it out?”
“Through a Romanian pilot wh
