In the alley outside the American restaurant, the aroma wasn’t quite as nauseating as in the main thoroughfare. It looked like Jae would be feasting on old vegetables and stale dinner rolls tonight. It was no worse than the way he was used to eating back in Chongsong.
The money he stole from the captain had lasted long enough to bring him to Yanji. It had taken Jae two weeks to make the journey, but sources he met on his search for the broker all eventually pointed here. Jae still didn’t know which brothel to visit first, and he couldn’t exactly afford soliciting door to door. Even now, he just barely had the bribe money he’d need to cross the border and return to North Korea, but that didn’t matter. All he cared about was finding Sun. His hunt had brought him as far as Yanji. He only hop
