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1981, Khartoum, Sudan.

Mossad operative Dani Limor paces restlessly outside the office of Sudan's tourism minister.

He's hoping to be granted a meeting with the minister, and he's been waiting hours.

Lemur catches his own reflection in a glass panel door and stops to run his hands through

his messy blonde hair.

He came straight here after discovering the abandoned holiday resort of Arous on the Red Sea coast.

He looks tired and disheveled from the 850 kilometre journey.

But this meeting cannot wait.

Arous would provide ideal cover for Mossad's operation

to get the Ethiopian Jews to Israel. But to use it, he must first convince the Sudanese minister

to lease it to him. Finally, his name is called. Lemur is ushered into the office of the tourism minister, Colonel Muhammad Mechoub.

The Colonel looks up from his desk, narrowing his eyes when he registers Lemur's dishevelled and dirty appearance.

Who are you? What is your business here?

I'm a French anthropologist. I've been here

in Sudan for a year and a half. I'm writing a paper on desert tribes. Le Maure repeats the cover

story he's been using for the past 18 months. But today, there's a new, less rehearsed embellishment to it.

But I have to fund my research, so I'm here to discuss a potential business venture.

Go on.

Lemoor sits and begins his pitch.

I came across an abandoned holiday village on the coast called Arous.

I'm told it is now owned by the Sudanese government.

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