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Yuri. But we want the whole package, complete. Not divided, like this.’
    Kozlov smiled, a rare expression, and Fredericks felt a surge of relief. The Russian said: ‘I’ve made your headquarters nervous?’
    Fredericks hesitated, unsure of the response the other man wanted. Then he said: ‘Yes. It’s an unusual demand.’
    â€˜It was meant to be,’ said the Russian. ‘I won’t be cheated. Or tricked.’
    â€˜Like I’ve said …’ tried the American, but Kozlov talked across him.
    â€˜So don’t bother saying it again,’ interrupted the Russian. ‘I accept that you were only doing what you were told to do, by Washington. But that means you hadn’t properly explained the situation, for them to understand how pointless it would be. It’s my way or it’s no way at all. You’ve known that from the beginning.’
    Kozlov was arrogant as well as clever, decided Fredericks. He said: ‘All right. Your way, entirely.’
    â€˜What about the British?’ demanded Kozlov.
    â€˜There’s been some communication,’ qualified Fredericks. ‘No one has actually arrived yet.’
    â€˜You delayed, to see what would happen today?’ anticipated Kozlov.
    Now Fredericks smiled. ‘Yes,’ he admitted. ‘I’m sorry.’
    â€˜I believe it wasn’t your fault,’ said Kozlov. ‘We suffer fools at Dzerzhinsky Square, too. It won’t happen again?’
    â€˜No,’ promised Fredericks, hopefully. Damn Langley and empire builders, he thought.
    â€˜How much longer?’ pressed Kozlov.
    â€˜I’ll tell Langley today. Say it must be soon.’
    â€˜Very soon,’ insisted the Russian. ‘It’s easy for suspicion to arise in a Soviet embassy.’
    â€˜You think something is wrong?’ asked Fredericks, feeling new concern.
    â€˜Not yet: I’m sure of that. Irena is as alert as I am, so I’m confident we would have detected something, between us …’ He smiled again. ‘I’m just a very cautious person; I was trained that way.’
    â€˜I understand,’ assured Fredericks. ‘I’ll make everything very clear.’
    â€˜I want you to leave here first,’ said Kozlov.
    â€˜Of course.’
    â€˜We’ll maintain the same method of contact?’ said the Russian.
    â€˜Yes.’
    â€˜Your people at Langley are stupid.’
    â€˜Yes,’ agreed Fredericks, sincerely. ‘They’re very stupid.’
    The American felt strangely self-conscious, going out of the temple with the Russian watching him. The feeling was soon overtaken by another, better sensation. Kozlov thought he controlled everything and that they jumped when he said jump, but Jim Dale was back there, watching everything the guy did. Which made him the cleverer of the two, decided Fredericks, satisfied.
    The arrangement had been that each of the people guarding him returned to the US embassy at Akasaka Toranomon directly after the failed meetings, to avoid any danger of identification from the possibly watching Kozlov, so Fish and Levine were back in Tokyo ahead of Fredericks. While they awaited the arrival of Dale – together with Winslow Elliott and Takeo Yamada, the two other CIA men whose wait at the other places set out but not used by the Russian had been pointless – Fredericks encoded Kozlov’s reaction and transmitted it to Washington. He took a lot of trouble, wanting, without making the criticism obvious, CIA headquarters fully to understand how near they had come to fouling up the whole thing by imagining remote control was possible. Fredericks waited in the code room for half an hour, for their response. When it finally came, it was limited to the briefly formal acknowledgement of receipt, and Fredericks knew he’d got the message home. Now they’d be scurrying around, each trying to dump on the other and avoid the