After a dangerous turn at Sergei Gomberg’s villa, Sugar resurfaces cold and decisive. Reading the risk, he sends Anya to Saigon - abandoning her again - while he submits to Triad control to survive. Misha, in fake designer gear, follows Tao’s plan to trace Jellycat but is ambushed, arrested, and unexpectedly released, then ordered to leave Vietnam. On the ferry he finds Anya; she refuses to return and vanishes again, as Sugar’s crew is placed under a ruthless new handler.
