The Bear and the Dragon - Tom Clancy [530]
For one particular person in Beijing, the changes meant that her job would change somewhat in importance if not in actual duties. Ming went out to dinner—the restaurants hadn't closed—with her foreign lover, gushing over drinks and noodles with the extraordinary events of the day, then walked off to his apartment for a dessert of Japanese sausage.
[20 apr 2002—scanned by anonymous]
[08 dec 2002—proofed for #bookz]
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
PROLOGUE—The White Mercedes
CHAPTER 1—Echoes of the Boom
CHAPTER 2—The Dead Goddess
CHAPTER 3—The Problems with Riches
CHAPTER 4—Knob Rattling
CHAPTER 5—Headlines
CHAPTER 6—Expansion
CHAPTER 7—Developing Leads
CHAPTER 8—Underlings and Underthings
CHAPTER 9—Initial Results
CHAPTER 10—Lessons of the Trade
CHAPTER 11—Faith of the Fathers
CHAPTER 12—Conflicts of the Pocket
CHAPTER 13—Penetration Agent
CHAPTER 14—(dot)com
CHAPTER 15—Exploitation
CHAPTER 16—The Smelting of Gold
CHAPTER 17—The Coinage of Gold
CHAPTER 18—Evolutions
CHAPTER 19—Manhunting
CHAPTER 20 —Diplomacy
CHAPTER 21—Simmering
CHAPTER 22—The Table and the Recipe
CHAPTER 23—Down to Business
CHAPTER 24—Infanticide
CHAPTER 25—Fence Rending
CHAPTER 26—Glass Houses and Rocks
CHAPTER 27—Transportation
CHAPTER 28—Collision Courses
CHAPTER 29—Billy Budd
CHAPTER 30—And the Rights of Men
CHAPTER 31—The Protection of Rights
CHAPTER 32—Coalition Collision
CHAPTER 33—Square One
CHAPTER 34—Hits
CHAPTER 35—Breaking News
CHAPTER 36—SORGE Reports
CHAPTER 37—Fallout
CHAPTER 39—The Other Question
CHAPTER 40—Fashion Statements
CHAPTER 41—Plots of State
CHAPTER 42—Birch Trees
CHAPTER 43—Decisions
CHAPTER 44—The Shape of a New World Order
CHAPTER 45—Ghosts of Horrors Past
CHAPTER 46—Journey Home
CHAPTER 47—Outlooks and All-Nighters
CHAPTER 48—Opening Guns
CHAPTER 49—Disarming
CHAPTER 50—Thunder and Lightning
CHAPTER 51—Falling Back
CHAPTER 52—Deep Battle
CHAPTER 53—Deep Concerns
CHAPTER 54—Probes and Pushes
CHAPTER 55—Looks and Hurts
CHAPTER 56—March to Danger
CHAPTER 57—Hyperwar
CHAPTER 58—Political Fallout
CHAPTER 59—Loss of Control
CHAPTER 60—Skyrockets in Flight
CHAPTER 61—Revolution