Chapter 16The icy wind overpowering the late winter sun helped wake Hiroshi from his fatigue. After talking with Eto Sensei the day before, he had dropped in at Jamie’s to make sure the detectives were rotating the guard but found her asleep. He returned to his office to work on two new cases that came in from London—real estate transactions gone wrong. After catching a few hours of sleep on the futon bed in his office, he hurried to the National Archives.
Hiroshi waited in front of the archives staring across the six-lane road at the wide moat encircling the Imperial Palace grounds. The water in the moat was thick and green with algae. The white stones of the walls, hewn from massive rocks, were set tightly, precisely in place, ready against attack. On the other side of the moat, the sur
