It's a tale of mystery, intrigue, and suspense. It reads like something out of a Cold War spy thriller. Really it's the tale of an fourth generation iPhone prototype that went missing somewhere between China and Cupertino. At its center is Sun Danyong, a 25-year-old employee of Taiwanese electronics company Foxconn.

After one of 16 prototypes of the forthcoming handset went missing, Danyong's apartment was searched illegally, and, according to some reporters, he was detained and possibly abused. Last Thursday, after 3 A.M., he jumped to his death out of his apartment window.