In this volatile landscape, if the missionary lingers here much longer, he is bound to be spotted.
Given his sharp wits and his harrowing escape from the horrors of Nanjing, he shouldn't be making such a rookie mistake. Therefore, Julian Vance was reasonably certain that the man had already slipped into the French Concession, likely seeking a way to smuggle the film out of occupied Europe.
Time was bleeding away.
The Abwehr and the Gestapo weren't fools; they would turn their gaze toward the French Concession soon enough. At that point, the missionary would be trapped. The Germans would likely wait for him to make a move—once he attempted to leave the territory, that would be the moment of his arrest.
Although the missionary surely sensed the walls closing in, escaping the continent wa
