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Everyone stared openly at Perlmutter Finally, Pitt asked the obvious question in their o down?"

"Better yet, Ian 'Hong Kong' Gallagher was the only survivor He was the ship's chief engineer, so if anyone can provide details of the sinking, he can Gallagher never went back to China but re a citizen and shipping out again on an A"

"Is he still living?"

"My very saer," answered Perlmutter with a smile ith teeth "He and his wife retired to a lakefront town called Manitowoc on the Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan I have Gallagher's address and phone nuht here If he can't point the way to the wreck, nobody can"

Pitt caood work, St Julien My congratulations on an extraordinary piece of research"

"I'll drink to that," said a happy Perllass of the forty-year-old port

"Now, Peter," Pitt said, focusing his eyes on Harper "My question to you is what if Qin Shang should return to the United States?"

"Unless he goes completely insane, he would never come back"

"But if he does?"

"He'd be arrested the minute he stepped off the plane and placed in a federal prison until his trial on at least forty different charges, including mass murder"

Pitt turned back to Perlmutter "St Julien, you once mentioned a respected Chinese researcher you've worked with in the past as interested in the Princess Dou Wan"

"Zhu Kwan China's most renowned historian and the author of several classic books on the different dynasties I'll have you know I followed your instructions and did not contact hi"

"Well, now you can feed hiher puts us in the ballpark, you can give that to Zhu Kwan too"