I can do anything, I can do snow falling. I can do smoke rising. I can do the sun setting. I can do someone dying. The last two are actually very similar. . . . The American agent known to the Cousins by the code name Khanda picked up his visa from the Mexican consulate in New Orleans the, last week in September, on the clay the newspapers first ran the item about the forthcoming visit of the Prince of the Realm to a particular city. Travelling, under the alias of Alek James Hidell, he set out by bus for Laredo, Texas, then strolled across to Nuevo Laredo and continued on in a Mexican bus. Once in Mexico City, Khanda made contact with his Cuban cutout, Normally all contacts between Khanda and his Merchant were handled by the Cubans. But because the assignment was so sensitive, the rule was ignored and the Cuban set up with the Russians. There were two of them. The first, named Vladimir Volkov, was the Department 13 man in Mexico. The other, the, younger of the two Cousins who ran Department 13, had flown to Mexico especially for this meeting.
