"He was taken in?"

"Yes. Hyungnim."

"Why?"

"The Sokcho branch prosecutors applied for a warrant. Embezzlement and breach of trust, they say."

"Fuck!"

Bang!

Kang Hongdong drove his foot into the desk.

The whites of his eyes had come up red.

The money riding on this!

A particular order had come in from a large organisation working out of Seoul.

The chief of Pacific Fisheries and Director Ha Donghwi!

The content of it was to tie the two of them up properly.

Players were put into the casino to get the work started.

At first they ran Yang Susan daily-payment loans at low interest.

Now, of course, adjusted upward to high.

They drew Ha Donghwi's surety out of him, put the seal on it and handed a large sum across.

Standing guarantee for another man's debt has no force in law, but in the private lending market the illegal is the law.

A while later word came again from the Seoul side.

The order was to move Yang Susan out of the country and leave Ha Donghwi in it, stripped clean.

It was easy enough work, and it went wrong at a point nobody had allowed for.

"You can't get him out?"

"Inspector Oh says the sum is large. And that the prosecutors above have moved……."

"Not Sokcho — Chuncheon?"

"It looks that way."

"Why? Have the prosecutor bastards nothing to do with themselves, this is fucking ridiculous."

Kang Hongdong's stomach turned that a job about to close had gone wrong.

"What shall we do?"

"Ha Donghwi! If we just get hold of that bastard……."

His head crowded, Kang Hongdong fell to thinking.

A doubt came to him about why Yang Susan, who was about to slip out of the country, had suddenly been taken in.

The uneasy feel of it gave him a headache.

Even so, orders have to be followed.

It is a job ordered by a director of a large Seoul organisation who had pushed work his way when things were hard.

The trade is not what it was, but they had taken hold of big money…