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The story was in the business with the post-office-box companies in places such as Gibraltar and Cyprus and Macao.† (source)

He flew undercover with Jason Bourne to Macao, where he was shot up so badly he damn near died.† (source)

That way I can use Macao.† (source) Louis L'Amour, The Broken Gun, 1966

The story I heard most often came from the Macao police, where Bourne was last known to be.† (source)

Was it a resurrection of Hong Kong and Macao?† (source)

If only he could have isolated the man from Macao for less than a minute, he could have got him out!† (source)

None had even vaguely fitted the description of the man from Macao — the description of himself.† (source)

It's the Jackal-by way of Hong Kong and Macao, but it's still the Jackal.† (source)

Jason removed it and waited for the man from Macao.† (source)

"What does Macao mean to us?" he asked flatly."† (source)

'So, I was told, were those of the man I didn't kill in Macao.'† (source)

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Carlos hasn't anything to do with taipans or Hong Kong or messages from Macao.† (source)

Jason Bourne: Bring in the man from Macao!† (source)

Suppose I were to tell you that we bring you a message from Macao?† (source)

The lie about our mythical taipan's young wife and lover having been murdered in Macao.† (source)

Then suddenly, out of nowhere, a new enterprising killer operating out of Macao revived that legend.† (source)

But the assassin was in Macao, and a chameleon had to enter another jungle.† (source)

It must not be Macao!' the taipan had screamed… ' The order will be swift^ the execution swifter!† (source)

Once in Macao, he'd turn over every piece of garbage to learn who this taipan is.† (source)

I think you're the best man behind a bar in Macao.'† (source)

I speak to him in French and he leaves a message for us here in Macao.† (source)

He travels with armed guards, even in Macao.† (source)

He made several references to Macao and I did not like his voice.† (source)

Jason and his former adversary from the alley in Macao walked along the dirt road.† (source)

It is whispered he works out of Macao, that is all I know, I swear it!† (source)

'I want a man at all times at immigration in Macao —around the clock.† (source)

You followed — he followed — the man from Macao into the mausoleum.† (source)

If he heads for Macao,' Mr Allister had said quietly, 'he could be a terrible liability…'† (source)

He can if he's not on his way back to Macao.'† (source)

'Bonsoir, man ami,' said the voice from Macao.† (source)

I have to make a phone call to someone here in Macao.† (source)

'We were to meet in Macao!' the man had shrieked over the telephone.† (source)

There is no taipan with a murdered young wife in Macao.† (source)

One goes to Macao, to the Kam Pek casino in the downtown area.† (source)

You even remembered a squirrelly doctor here in Macao who owed you a favour and you made him pay.† (source)

McAllister will be with him in Macao and learn the sequence codes to reach Sheng.† (source)

Therefore he had to draw the man from Macao out — of his own volition.† (source)

They were in Macao, and Bourne knew what he had to do.† (source)

The name of the casino in Macao was whispered, shot out of the shadows beyond a deserted news-stand.† (source)

Especially not for a white male travelling alone under a questionable passport issued in Macao.† (source)

No such killing as McAllister described to you ever took place at the Lisboa Hotel in Macao.† (source)

You bested me in Macao, but I am not unworthy in this regard.† (source)

We'll leave the money here in Macao, accessible only to you.† (source)

Where is the killer you brought from Macao?† (source)

I've got to get to Macao as quickly as possible.† (source)

No matter, the man from Macao was trapped.† (source)

The impostor's clients are obviously here in Hong Kong, not Macao.'† (source)

Once inside you are on your own, but you did not come through Macao.† (source)

Inside, he was as safe as he could be anywhere in Macao.† (source)

He runs stolen gold and jewels, operating between Hong Kong, Macao and Singapore.† (source)

The telephone number of a hotel in Macao and a name.† (source)

'Macao lai dianhua' replied the switchboard operator at Headquarters, Guangdong garrison.† (source)

You wouldn't have agreed so readily to my coming with you to Macao.† (source)

'It's a minor conference, lasting for only a few hours, and we'll return to Macao later tonight.† (source)

They ran down a rumour in Macao, only it turned out to be more than a rumour.'† (source)

Incidentally, why is he to stay out of Macao?† (source)

It was why he was willing to risk his life, why he damn near ended up a corpse across the Chinese border in Macao.† (source)

This is out of Hong Kong, out of Macao.† (source)

Hong Kong's finished, Macao's finished.† (source)

The reference to Macao confirms it.† (source)

He was not the younger man that he had been in Paris, nor the more mature man in Hong Kong, Macao and Beijing; he was now fifty and he felt it, every year of it.† (source)

Whenever a killing of consequence took place, whether in Tokyo or Hong Kong, Macao or Korea-wherever-Bourne was flown there and took the credit, planting evidence, taunting the authorities, until he became a legend.† (source)

"You might try to operate from Hong Kong or Macao-they'd welcome your money, but with the problems they currently have with the Mainland's markets and the Sino-British Treaty of '97, they'd probably frown on your indictments.† (source)

He explained how he and Morris Panov spotted the old men who followed them, picking each up in sequence as they made their separate ways to the Smithsonian, none showing himself in the light until the confrontation on a deserted path on the Smithsonian grounds, where the messenger spoke of Macao and Hong Kong and a great taipan.† (source)

Hong Kong, Kowloon, Macao and all the territories are part of their so-called "great nation under heaven", even the China Accords make that clear.† (source)

McAllister paused as they emerged from the alley and rounded a corner in the late-night Macao crowds; coloured lights were flashing everywhere.† (source)

Jason slipped away from the Honeywell-Porter group and found a taxi whose driver must have trained by watching the annual Macao Grand Prix.† (source)

Over in Macao's Porto Interior, on the Rua das Lorchas, was d'Anjou's flat which was a minor arsenal of weapons, the tools of the Frenchman's trade.† (source)

Shall I turn around and head for Macao?† (source)

He'll see what I saw and if it were me I'd head back to Macao and twenty thousand American, and say I lost my way.'† (source)

When an officer at Headquarters One asked for Soo's personal confirmation, the aide said he had left for Macao on urgent business.† (source)

A taipan's wife murdered in Macao — oh, the symmetry of it all, what an excuse to take another man's wife!† (source)

I was the man — the man from Macao!† (source)

A terrorist Tong from Macao telephoned the South China News Agency claiming responsibility for the killings.† (source)

And I will keep only my best people on the gates to greet them when they return later tonight to Macao.† (source)

The Kam Pek, Macao,' interrupted Jason.† (source)

The Emergency Medical Service helicopter roared across Victoria Harbour past the out islands of the South China Sea towards Macao.† (source)

'Supposedly Chief of Intelligence for Macao operations,' replied the Frenchman, 'but he would sell his mother to a brothel if the price were right.† (source)

It's called a telephone and I didn't think there'd be communications from Macao to the Guangdong garrison if you didn't have scramblers.† (source)

Jason dialled the number in Macao that tripped a relay in China into a swept telephone in Jade Tower Mountain.† (source)

The whispers spoke of messages between Macao and Guangdong, of powerful men in Beijing— of one man with immense power.† (source)

'He's dead,' said the voice from Macao.† (source)

Tell the woman in Macao to give our assassin the number and electronically sweep all conceivable interceptions.† (source)

The same weapon was supposedly used to kill the taipan's wife and her lover in Macao, wasn't that it?'† (source)

You were sent to Macao to reach him!† (source)

If he digs in Macao, however, and learns the truth, he will have proof that he's been deceived by his government.† (source)

The trip took barely an hour, and from the Macao pier to the Rua das Lorchas was no more than ten minutes by cab.† (source)

That he was pursuing an extraordinary development, one that could erupt into widespread violence throughout the underworlds of Hong Kong and Macao.† (source)

He knew his way around both Macao and the border at Guangdong, and Bourne knew he had to reach this man, and reach him quickly!† (source)

Two weeks ago the drug dealer and Yao Ming's wife were shot in their bed at the Lisboa Hotel in Macao.† (source)

We'll say I cooperated with the police in Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Sumatra and the Philippines.† (source)

The streets of Macao are almost as garishly lit as those of Hong Kong; what is lacking is the sense of too much humanity in too little space.† (source)

You stay twenty-four hours in Macao.† (source)

You belong in a museum, if there's one in your home town … But look at it this way, you can research the entire project back in Macao.† (source)

'Go ahead, Macao,' said the colonel.† (source)

Frankly, if he heads for Macao, he could become a terrible liability rather than the asset we think we've created.'† (source)

His exorbitant fees come from my enemies here in Hong Kong and Macao, and up the Deep Bay water routes north into the provinces themselves!† (source)

Who has business in Macao at midnight?† (source)

He opened it, removed the paper inside and read the typewritten English script: Telephone Macao — 32-61-443.† (source)

The physician had asked McAllister how he expected to replace him — there was a dearth of competent doctors in Macao.† (source)

At the end of two years you were notorious, yet in fact you killed only one man, a drunken informer in Macao who tried to garrotte you.'† (source)

Among the most vicious members of the Hong Kong-Macao underworld — upper-level soldiers who carry out orders, captains who initiate deals and arrange contracts, violent ones.† (source)

He looked around for a pay phone and then realized that he had never used one in Macao, and even if there were instructions, he was not familiar with the Portuguese colony's coins.† (source)

Scanning the faces and peering into the shadowed corners of the small, packed terminal, Bourne moved with the crowd out onto the pier of the Macao hydrofoil, a trip that took roughly an hour.† (source)

Forty miles southwest of Hong Kong, beyond the out islands in the South China Sea, is the peninsula of Macao, a Portuguese colony in ceremonial name only.† (source)

It was risk enough that the trail of the impostor assassin had brought him to Macao in the first place, but as long as he stayed away from the Lisboa Hotel he trusted his instincts.† (source)

He was free to leave for Macao.† (source)

Get me a hotel room here in Macao.† (source)

Finally, there was a bonus from the man whose life he had saved in Repulse Bay: the description of the man travelling under a Macao passport across the Lo Wu border.† (source)

He then tore off a page and wrote out the telephone number of a Macao hotel he had memorized from the Voyager magazine provided to passengers on the hydrofoil.† (source)

You made the connection in Macao.† (source)

Macao, yes\ But no connection.† (source)

He's to transfer a million — five million if he has to — over here to Macao in the morning, and by mid-afternoon I want a killer unit here ready to go up into China.† (source)

For nearly a long Macao block.† (source)

The Frenchman had gone to the Peninsula with Bourne's room key, packed his suitcase without checking out, and was taking the one o'clock jetfoil back to Macao.† (source)

One goes to Table Five and leaves the telephone number of a Macao hotel — not a private telephone — and a name — any name — not one's own, naturally.'† (source)

The many that were over six feet in height were too young or too old or too portly or too slender or too obvious in their lime-green and lemon-yellow trousers to be the man from Macao.† (source)

And reach the man in Macao.† (source)

The conduit from Macao whose name was Wong — at least that was the name he offered — was impressed by the diplomatic passports but for safety's sake, as well as for the $20,000 American for which he said he felt a moral obligation, decided to prepare the border crossing his way.† (source)

I am the champion of Macao.† (source)

To a disinterested observer it was merely one more xiao wan ju, a legacy to a first son from a once unworthy fisherman who had struck minor riches — a crazy night of mah-jong, hashish from the Triangle, smuggled jewels out of Macao — who cared?† (source)

There was only so much pacing one could do in the Frenchman's flat on the Rua das Lorchas overlooking Macao's Porto Interiore — or Inner Harbour — and they had agreed he was not to go outside in daylight.† (source)

To be certain he was not being followed — and he had to be absolutely certain — he had taken three separate taxis to within a quarter of a mile of the Macao Ferry pier an hour before departure, walking the rest of the way.† (source)

Your wife will die}' Macao.† (source)

In the interest of speed and because the hydrofoils stopped running at 2100 hours, a medical helicopter would fly them to Macao, where all immigration permits would be cleared for the delivery of emergency supplies to the Kiang Wu Hospital on the Rua Coelho Do Amaral.† (source)

One weekend it's gambling for extraordinary stakes in Macao, next the races in Singapore or flying over to the Pescadores for the pistol games in backwater opium houses, betting thousands on who will be killed as men face one another across tables, spinning chambers and aiming at each other.† (source)

There was no taipan in Hong Kong named Yao Ming, and his impeccable sources — read very well paid — in Macao assured him there had been no double murder involving a taipan's wife and a drug runner at the Lisboa Hotel.† (source)

Macao?† (source)

It is Macao.† (source)

Why Macao?† (source)

It must not be Macao!† (source)

Macao!† (source)

If not Macao, where then?† (source)

The Macao border, sir.† (source)

It must not be Macao!† (source)

'Over in Macao?† (source)

Get me a rundown on Macao as it is today, everything in current publications over the past few years.† (source) Louis L'Amour, The Broken Gun, 1966

He thought of Baskul, Pekin, Macao, and other places--he had moved about pretty often.† (source) James Hilton, Lost Horizon, 1933

The island is situated at the mouth of the Canton River, and is separated by about sixty miles from the Portuguese town of Macao, on the opposite coast.† (source)

But Mr. Fogg, far from being discouraged, was continuing his search, resolved not to stop if he had to resort to Macao, when he was accosted by a sailor on one of the wharves.† (source)

Hong Kong has beaten Macao in the struggle for the Chinese trade, and now the greater part of the transportation of Chinese goods finds its depot at the former place.† (source)

At our return, we found the priest was come from Macao, that was to accompany Father Simon to Pekin.† (source) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719

O, said he, you had better put in at Macao, where you may buy China wares as cheap as at Nanquin, and sell your opium at a greater advance.† (source) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719

"Well, Seignior, (said I) don't be discontented about your returning alone; and if, by this means, I can find a passage to England, it will be your own fault if you return to Macao at all."† (source) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719

Father Simon, it seems, was appointed to go to Pekin, the royal seat of the Emperor of the Chinese; and he only waited for another priest, who was ordered from Macao to accompany him.† (source) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719

My partner seeing me so concerned, encouraged me as well as he could; and, after describing to me the several ports of that coast, he told me, he would either put me in on the coast of Cochinchina, or else in the bay of Tonquin, from whence we might go to Macao, a town once possessed by the Portuguese, and where still many European families resided.† (source) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719

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