In a paroxysm of desperation, Hadley managed to squirm out from beneath him, like an animal crawling on hands and knees, and in that instant she almost believed that she might escape Anton Kruppev but he had only to lunge after her, seize her ankle in his strong fingers, laughing and climbing over her, straddlingher again, more forcibly this time, closing his fingers around her neck.
For nearly a century, between 1560 and 1640, this bilateral trade would earn Portugal fabulous wealth and make Macau a linchpin in her globe-straddling network of trade.
Today she juggles job, marriage and family while straddling three continents, with a home in California where she spends weekends and holidays with her two college-student children, ages 23 and 18, and trips to Europe and Asia, where her husband works.