✍ Scribed by Adam Hall
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The crowds are gathered in Pekin for the funeral of their premier. Suddenly the coffin explodes. Quiller is back on another mission with all the usual nerve-chilling happenings - an agent lifeless in the coils of a boa constrictor and a beautiful girl ritually killed on the on the steps of a temple.
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