The meeting at Director Yun's office that evening was the largest gathering the case had required.
There were eight of us around the conference table in the director's outer room, which had been cleared of its usual administrative accumulation and arranged for a working session: Director Yun at the head, Deputy Inspector Oh to his right, a woman named Inspector Gwon Hae-rin from the southern provincial oversight office who had traveled up that afternoon by express coach, Chief Archivist Cha, two officers from the interagency coordination unit, Kaien, and myself.
Shin Bao was not present. That was a deliberate decision. What was discussed in this room would have operational consequences for the southern action, and the fewer people who held the precise details, the fewer potential points of leakage.
