While agents from the Benevolent Love Convent were still carrying out street assassinations and high-ranking officials in the Bear were busy selling off an entire country for scrap, Lin Yuan transmigrated into the top agent of the Swallow Agency.
But this ghost, who gave Western intelligence agencies nightmares, appeared in public as a grinning wheeler-dealer with smuggled cigarettes in his pockets, spending every day helping his superiors resell military supplies.
“Comrade Director, I’ve laundered that batch of weapons for you. The dollars have already arrived in your Swiss account. As for those aircraft carrier blueprints nobody wants, I’ll use them to wrap some red sausage, okay?”
From complete blueprints for top-tier fighter jets and actual aircraft engines to nationally treasured nuclear physicists, he conned and cajoled them all, breaking them into small pieces and loading them onto the Ghost Train to send them back East in a frenzy.
But when a future emperor named “Vladimir” respectfully lit his cigarette and asked which Western oligarch to take down next…
Lin Yuan clenched a Marlboro between his teeth, watched the last group of military experts board the ship, and spread his hands helplessly. “I’m really not some mastermind behind the scenes. I’m just a greedy middleman, picking a little wool off the Bear while I’m at it.”
[Hardcore military-industrial espionage + utterly devious scheming + power politics and business warfare + the rise of a great industrial power]
