32 I stayed under the vent until the late morning had become early afternoon....

31 I shook as I stared down into the alley. It was something close to twenty stories to the ground....

29 Let's say you have five minutes to get the hell out of your apartment, what do you grab?... 30 A brisk wind greeted us as we burst onto the roof....

28 David drove us back to my place over Ivanova's....

26 You ever watch a Hideo Kurosawa film? There's always that scene in every movie where a gang of ronin are doing something stupid when a rival group of samurai come across them.... 27 It was dawn by the time we found Epstein's....

25 The Oyster Bed was incredible. A holographic clam, three stories tall above the entrance, opened and closed in a rhythm more biological than musical....

24 At ten Dmitri came for me....

22 When I first joined British Telecom-Sprint, I was one of thousands working in vast cubicle mazes.... 23 The engagement dinner flowed past me in a blur....

19 Shortly after dawn, I felt Nona slip into the bed next to me.... 20 I woke about noon to pounding on the door.... 21 At six o'clock, we were ready.....

17 By the time I returned with Dmitri and company in tow to Little Russia, arrangements had already been made, and a new apartment awaited me.... 18 I made my way to Giorgi's and received my keycard....

16 The Red Line Express station was right where Nona said it would be....