Just as a few people in the hotel's presidential suite bathroom were conspiring on how to deal with Song Heping, the waiter who had delivered drinks to them half an hour earlier was now hiding in a small changing room on the same floor, wearing headphones and holding a miniature recording device, recording the conversation of the people inside.
This waiter was in fact MI6's planted surveillance expert, Carl Ryan—placing the transmitter near the ventilation opening.
The hotel central air conditioning system would carry the signal to a mobile receiving station set up in the parking lot three hundred meters away, and from there relay it to Weber who was waiting for news in Khartoum.
When the conversation in the presidential suite ended, he took off his headphones, put away the recording equipment and carefully concealed it, then reopened the door and stood in front of the mirror.
In the mirror, he saw fine beads of sweat forming on his forehead.
