Summary

Pages 55 – 65: The next day, Bruno, Stolarsky, and Harpaz have dinner together. Bruno admits that he has not returned to Berkeley in 30 years, and Stolarsky admits that he was up all night playing backgammon online. Stolarsky asks Bruno if they can play backgammon together later, and Bruno agrees.

Pages 66 – 80: Bruno meets briefly with Edgar Falk in Falk’s hotel room. The elderly Falk has just received a massage, and he lies mostly naked on the massage table as a tactic to unsettle Bruno. Falk discusses the backgammon game he has set up for Bruno with a wealthy business associate of Falk’s named Yik Tho Lim. Falk and Lim share various criminal business interests. After this meeting, Bruno goes to Stolarsky’s room for the game of backgammon he agreed to. Bruno wins the first few rounds easily, and then Tira Harpaz enters with...