Instead, he ran to the closet and jerked it open, pulling at his chin with the other hand. The chin stretched out like bubble gum, and suddenly the pockmarked, rugged face of Anatoloy Cherenovsky was vanishing into strips of Mylopar--The latest in synthetic skin developed in CIA labs--and latex that peeled away in layers to reveal the face of Ethan Hunt, a man in his early thirties with short black hair and the taut features of a well conditioned athlete. He ripped off the straggling pieces of Mylopar and latex base, which clung to his neck and forehead, pulled padding out of his jacket, and stripped a thin plastic overlay from his mouth that had given his teeth a yellowish tinge.

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