Chapter Nine
Los Angeles, California: CIA Building:
Agent Asahi Tanaka stepped into his office in the Central Intelligence Agency’s Los Angeles office. He had arrived earlier than usual this morning because he had a flight out of LAX to Seattle at ten o’clock. He didn’t bother with the overhead light. Instead, he turned on the small desk lamp positioned on the corner of his desk and he pressed the power button on his computer.
He walked over to the large set of windows and looked down at the street while he waited for his computer to boot up. The city never truly slept, but the early morning, and the fact that it was a weekend, meant the downtown area was relatively empty. His mind was not on the day-to-day life found in Los Angeles, though. He was thinking of a small town along the coa
