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The
most
unusual
thing
Jimmy
had
managed
to
score
on
his
swing
through
the
archipelago
was
a
head
,
an
intricately
worked
bust
,
cloisonn
over
platinum
,
studded
with
seedpearls
and
lapis
.
Smith
,
sighing
,
had
put
down
his
pocket
microscope
and
advised
Jimmy
to
melt
the
thing
down
.
It
was
contemporary
,
not
an
antique
,
and
had
no
value
to
the
collector
.
Jimmy
laughed
.
The
thing
was
a
computer
terminal
,
he
said
.
It
could
talk
.
And
not
in
a
synth
-
voice
,
but
with
a
beautiful
arrangement
of
gears
and
miniature
organ
pipes
.
It
was
a
baroque
thing
for
anyone
to
have
constructed
,
a
perverse
thing
,
because
synth
-
voice
chips
cost
next
to
nothing
.
It
was
a
curiosity
.
Smith
jacked
the
head
into
his
computer
and
listened
as
the
melodious
,
inhuman
voice
piped
the
figures
of
last
year
’
s
tax
return
.
Smith
’
s
clientele
included
a
Tokyo
billionaire
whose
passion
for
clockwork
automata
approached
fetishism
.
Smith
shrugged
,
showing
Jimmy
his
upturned
palms
in
a
gesture
old
as
pawn
shops
.
He
could
try
,
he
said
,
but
he
doubted
he
could
get
much
for
it
.
When
Jimmy
had
gone
,
leaving
the
head
,
Smith
went
over
it
carefully
,
discovering
certain
hallmarks
.
Eventually
he
’
d
been
able
to
trace
it
to
an
unlikely
collaboration
between
two
Zurich
artisans
,
an
enamel
specialist
in
Paris
,
a
Dutch
jeweler
,
and
a
California
chip
designer
.
It
had
been
commissioned
,
he
discovered
,
by
Tessier
-
Ashpool
S
.
A
.
Smith
began
to
make
preliminary
passes
at
the
Tokyo
collector
,
hinting
that
he
was
on
the
track
of
something
noteworthy
.
And
then
he
had
a
visitor
,
a
visitor
unannounced
,
one
who
walked
in
through
the
elaborate
maze
of
Smith
’
s
security
as
though
it
didn
’
t
exist
.
A
small
man
,
Japanese
,
enormously
polite
,
who
bore
all
the
marks
of
a
vatgrown
ninja
assassin
.
Smith
sat
very
still
,
staring
into
the
calm
brown
eyes
of
death
across
a
polished
table
of
Vietnamese
rosewood
.
Gently
,
almost
apologetically
,
the
cloned
killer
explained
that
it
was
his
duty
to
find
and
return
a
certain
artwork
,
a
mechanism
of
great
beauty
,
which
had
been
taken
from
the
house
of
his
master
.
It
had
come
to
his
attention
,
the
ninja
said
,
that
Smith
might
know
of
the
whereabouts
of
this
object
.
Smith
told
the
man
that
he
had
no
wish
to
die
,
and
produced
the
head
.
And
how
much
,
his
visitor
asked
,
did
you
expect
to
obtain
through
the
sale
of
this
object
?
Smith
named
a
figure
far
lower
than
the
price
he
’
d
intended
to
set
.
The
ninja
produced
a
credit
chip
and
keyed
Smith
that
amount
out
of
a
numbered
Swiss
account
.
And
who
,
the
man
asked
,
brought
you
this
piece
?
Smith
told
him
.
Within
days
,
Smith
learned
of
Jimmy
’
s
death
.
'
So
that
was
where
I
came
in
,
’
the
Finn
continued
.
'
Smith
knew
I
dealt
a
lot
with
the
Memory
Lane
crowd
,
and
that
’
s
where
you
go
for
a
quiet
go
-
to
that
’
ll
never
be
traced
.
I
hired
a
cowboy
.
I
was
the
cut
-
out
,
so
I
took
a
percentage
.
Smith
,
he
was
careful
.
He
’
d
just
had
a
very
weird
business
experience
and
he
’
d
come
out
on
top
,
but
it
didn
’
t
add
up
.
Who
’
d
paid
,
out
of
that
Swiss
stash
?
Yakuza
?
No
way
.
They
got
a
very
rigid
code
covers
situations
like
that
,
and
they
kill
the
receiver
too
,
always
.
Was
it
spook
stuff
?
Smith
didn
’
t
think
so
.
Spook
biz
has
a
vibe
,
you
get
so
you
can
smell
it
.
Well
,
I
had
my
cowboy
buzz
the
news
morgues
until
we
found
Tessier
-
Ashpool
in
litigation
.
The
case
wasn
’
t
anything
,
but
we
got
the
law
firm
.
Then
he
did
the
lawyer
’
s
ice
and
we
got
the
family
address
.
Lotta
good
it
did
us
.
’
Case
raised
his
eyebrows
.
'
Freeside
,
’
the
Finn
said
.
'
The
spindle
.
Turns
out
they
own
damn
near
the
whole
thing
.
The
interesting
stuff
was
the
picture
we
got
when
the
cowboy
ran
a
regular
go
-
to
on
the
news
morgues
and
compiled
a
precis
.
Family
organization
.
Corporate
structure
.
Supposedly
you
can
buy
into
an
S
.
A
.
,
but
there
hasn
’
t
been
a
share
of
Tessier
-
Ashpool
traded
on
the
open
market
in
over
a
hundred
years
.
On
any
market
,
as
far
as
I
know
.
You
’
re
looking
at
a
very
quiet
,
very
eccentric
first
-
generation
high
orbit
family
,
run
like
a
corporation
.
Big
money
,
very
shy
of
media
.
Lot
of
cloning
.
Orbital
law
’
s
a
lot
softer
on
genetic
engineering
,
right
?
And
it
’
s
hard
to
keep
track
of
which
generation
,
or
combination
of
generations
,
is
running
the
show
at
a
given
time
.
’
