But she remembers one essential fact. That was no gutter punk who attacked her. An assassin so lavishly augmented as the one who attacked her would not come cheaply. And no unprincipled "samurai" of the streets murdered two GSG and brought a third, the most senior, Sukayo-san, near to death. Assassins so highly skilled and so fortunate as to succeed where others have failed could only be purchased by those with serious resources, dire motivations, objectives that must be identified and plans that must be neutralized.