Tokyo

Langley, in the meantime, was also pleased with Koji's performance. In a short period, he had become their most successful recruiter. Once or twice a week after work, when not being entertained by his vendors, he would go to bars frequented by middle echelon salarymen.

Not sharing the national habit of pouring out ones sorrows after consuming a suitable amount of alcohol, Koji was happy to enact the role of a sympathetic ear, often literally providing a shoulder to be cried on. Fortunately, he was also enviably hard-headed.

Occasionally during these evenings, Koji would find a man who was not simply letting off steam in a socially approved way, but was genuinely embittered. Koji identified such men as potential agents who, either for the money or for the chance to get back at the object of their resentment or both, would pass on useful information to Koji or another officer.