74 km from Shanghai

Abseiling upside down a sheer rock face… fast shooting as she goes at what Mike Tasso takes to be a gang of Triads is a sexcat in black kit.

With Triads falling left, right and centre, the said cat drops onto the ground, ducking ping-ponging bullets – a Triad speciality Mike knows from his school time experiences of match-play with various Chinese. – In one flick of the knife from her boot she fells the Triad that was about to take out her lousy male partner… and even has time to re-sheathe her miraculously bloodless weapon. Mike holds up his hand chuckling when he realises that it is a plasma screen vision of Lara Croft, Tomb Raider. He turns to share the joke, but it appears both Dante and Gregorius are onto something…