CHAPTER SIX
Su Ling sat at her dressing table contemplating her face. It was, she decided quite dispassionately, a beautiful face. However, Su Ling wasn't really vain. The reflection from her mirror was an indisputable fact, and she accepted it.
She had been making a great deal of thinking these last few days. And her thoughts were mainly concentrated on the Hong Kong affair. There was something very wrong somewhere, although she couldn't quite put the finger on the sore point. But she instinctively felt that, somewhere along the line, she hadn't been told the whole truth. When Alex had told her that Lieutenant Edwin Mc Cullough had disappeared without leaving any trace, she had accepted it at first as the normal behavior that could be expected from a double agent.
After all, she knew h
