Wow, this story has it all: rule-breaking, police searches, secret codes, missed rendezvous, international computer security consultants, shady characters, back up plans, jumping trains in sunny resort towns, and even some paranoid delusions. Hitchcock, eat your heart out!! (I am having to send this in code over the internet. None of the facts have been changed. But many have been so thoroughly disguised as to be virtually unrecognizable.) (In spite of this remarkable ability, I have no plans to run for high office. Amazing, no?) And, just to make it commercial, it has brand placement, too!! Picture this. A sunny Sunday in Nice. Two relatively innocent Canadians set off to meet up with friends in Cannes for lunch. At least, that’s what it appears! Marike’s instructions, carefully disguised in otherwise ordinary e-mails, are cryptic: “Head south
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