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WITHIN THREE MINUTES FROM SAM’S order, Peng joined Sam in the garage with a limo driver in tow. They quickly found their vehicles and began their mini convoy.
Once aboveground and leaving the carpark, Sam saw troop movements were clearly in motion as military personnel rushed to reinforce the existing security at each of the ZG gates.
Sam had been so focused on the choreography of getting in and out of the President and Li that he had not recognized what Li had done in the brief period Sam had been integrated with the President. The depth of paranoia in the Communist Party was much deeper than Sam had thought. Now looking he could see in Li’s mind the various protocols that were put in place in the event of a number of situations, unbelievably including a handshake signal that only t
