"Patrick Tilley - Amtrak 5 - Death - Bringer" - читать интересную книгу автора (Tilley Patrick)

The Dark Light might kill him but it would never enslave him. Ieyasu
knew this because it had served him well over many years. Key members
of his private network of secret agents had been using high-powered
radio transceivers and other electronic devices for the last ten
years.

The same type of equipment used by the secret agents of the Federation
and which, after a series of stealthy contacts, had been supplied by
them to Ieyasu's organization under the terms of a secret protocol
signed by him and Commander-General Karlstrom, the head of AMEXICO.

Among the items covered was the return of any mexican caught by the
Plainfolk Mutes and sold to the Iron Masters. Other clauses outlined
mutually-beneficial arrangements for the pooling of specific types of
information, for example - the kinds of weapons the Iron Masters



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planned to supply to the Mutes by way of trade and, in return, any
snippets of information which could help Ieyasu head off any bid to
topple the TohYota shogunate.

A final clause set out the arrangements for joint operations between
the two spy networks. It was here that AMEXICO's help had proved
invaluable. There were certain locations which, for various reasons,
Ieyasu's home-grown agents were unable to penetrate or where they could
not operate effectively. The wheel-boats operated by the Yama-Shita
family were one example. The vetting procedures were so strict it was
impossible to slip an outsider into the crew. The only alternative was
to buy the allegiance of someone already serving the family but
experience had shown this to be a costly and highly unreliable way of
doing business.

Karlstrom had supplied the answer: the insertion of




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mexicans,
disguised as Mute slaves, and armed with a working knowledge of
japanese and other asiatic languages into sensitive locations. Ieyasu,
after some initial misgivings, had accepted the offer. And it had
worked.