CHAPTER TWENTY
9:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
South of Canal Street
Chinatown, New York City
“They’ve started.”
His name was Weng Kaibo. Here in the United States, he went by the name Michael. Michael Wing. It was easier for the Americans to deal with this. Many Chinese living in the West did it—reverse the order of the names, and change them to something more familiar. He had stuck with his real name for a while, but he grew tired of people calling him “Mr. Kaibo.”
He gazed out his fourth-story window at the activity going on down in the street. He and his family lived just a few blocks south of Canal Street, the historic northern border of Chinatown.
One block away from here a fence was going up. There was a construction crew out there, protected by the police. Of course the poli
