Kyoko Watanabe shrugged, her eyes boring into Arthur de Molay with a simmering, barely contained fury. Previously, the Abwehr and the Gestapo had deduced that Sun Ping’an’s untimely demise was no accident. They suspected Arthur had orchestrated the hit to clear a path for his nephew-in-law, Julian Vance. After all, the German internal screenings had turned up no other viable candidates for such a cold-blooded removal of a Section Chief. Now, Su Bai, the man parachuted into the Milice Intelligence Section to provide adult supervision, was also dead. To Kyoko, the pattern was as clear as a Parisian spring: Arthur resented the German encroachment on his power. Julian was already a Deputy, and Su Bai had been the final obstacle to his total control. If you can kill Sun Ping’an, Kyoko though

