"Destroyer - 019 - Holy Terror" - читать интересную книгу автора (Murphy Warren)

"He did not mention Sinanju," said Chiun. "But we do not have to let Smith know that."

"What are you angling for now?" asked Remo. "What did you tell Smith?"

"In the car, the emperor demanded to know about the ancient Sinanju records, and feeling loyalty to him, just as you doЕ"

"You don't feel loyalty."

"Feeling loyalty, just as you do, knowledge of the ancient records was forced out of me."

"Like wet out of a baby," said Remo.

"And I told Emperor Smith that we had records in Sinanju of the lineage of this Blissful Master creature, whoever he is."

"Just in case one lie didn't get you a free trip back home, another might."

"And Emperor Smith asked me if I remembered what the records said."

"And you couldn't, but if you got a good look again, it would all come back."

"I think that was it. Sometimes my memory fails me; You understand."

"I understand that first we're going to the San Diego mission."

There were mumblings in Korean about ingratitude and how only the most heartless of persons would deny a dying man a trip back home.

"You're dying, Little Father?" asked Remo, eyebrow cocked in an expression of suspicion.

"We're all dying," said Chiun. "Death is but the handmaiden of life."

"I thought it was something like that," said Remo.

At the car, Smith was dozing; the parched face seemed truly relaxed.

"He's your man," Remo told him.

"Did you get a lead?"

"To Sinanju," said Chiun quickly.

"With a stop in San Diego," said Remo.

"Good," said Smith. "I guess we're most afraid of the unknown, and this thing frightens me because we don't know just what it is. You didn't get any indication of what was going to happen, did you?"

"Just something big."

"I believe we have read the prophecy of the ancient Blissful Masters," said Chiun. "It is not clear, but there was to come a time that a calamitousЕ let me see, a calamitous calamity was to be started, and it would come quickly once it was decided upon. That is what I remember. The rest of it is back in Sinanju."

"You know we might be able to airdrop you two directly into Sinanju by tomorrow," said Smith.