finding their way to banks and coin collectors’ shops. But the FBI has a problem. If they admit that they know about the coins, the coins will stop coming into the country. They’ll be melted down6 into gold bars7 and will be lost. They don’t want that to happen. ‘At the moment, someone is using a network8 of people – people who are working as porters, sleeping car attendants9 on trains or truck drivers – to spread the coins all across the United States. Quite innocent people, like Zachary Smith …’ M opened a thick file which had TOP SECRET written on it and took out a single piece of paper. He began to read: ‘Zachary Smith, 35. Works as train attendant. Address 90b West 126th Street, in Harlem, New York City. On 21st November, he sold four sixteenth- and seventeenth-century gold coins to Fein Jewels in Lennox Avenue for one hundred dollars. When interviewed later, Smith said they had been sold to him in a Harlem bar for twenty dollars each. The seller was a black man he had never seen before. He told Smith that the coins were each worth fifty dollars. But Smith wanted cash immediately, so he was happy to sell them to Fein Jewels for twenty-five dollars each.’ M put the paper back into the file. ‘All the sales have been in Harlem or Florida.’ ‘And you think they’re part of Bloody Morgan’s treasure,’ said Bond. ‘That’s almost certain, because of the dates on the coins,’ agreed M. ‘But Bloody Morgan’s treasure is not in America, it’s in Jamaica. A boat, the Secatur, has been regularly sailing from a small island on the north coast of Jamaica, through the Florida Keys and into the Gulf of Mexico. This yacht10 sails to St Petersburg, near Tampa, on the west coast of Florida. The FBI has discovered that the boat and the island belong to a man called “Mr Big”. He’s a black gangster11 who lives in Harlem. Have you heard about him?'