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The Bear and the Dragon - Tom Clancy [530]

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but he looked old and wise, and China was a country of great momentum rather than great thoughts, and though the course of the country would change, it would change slowly so far as its people were concerned. People shrugged, and discussed the puzzling new developments in quiet and measured words.

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

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