The Ninja and the Diplomat

***COMRADE BRODSKY REPORTS THAT THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC WILL ATTACK ASEAN***

The Chinese intelligence agency received this message from a trusted asset. He had just completed the sale of MANPADs, manually portable anti-aircraft devices, in Macau.

His customer was Carlos a.k.a. Hashim. What buy arms for the rebels in the Philippines?

A logistics manager suspected of stealing from the Chinese Army warehouse is found murdered. The ensuing review of the warehouse inventory shows that a twelve MANPADs and a dozen tactical nuclear devices have been stolen recently.

A high-ranking foreign ministry official, key to managing a brewing international crisis, is nearly assassinated when he meets with a cousin who lives in Taiwan.

Urgent deep analysis of all related data spotlights two men, the Boss and the Yakuza. One of them plans to wreak havoc on China. What is to be done?