Part Five, The Second Investigation, Chapters 83-86 Summary

Soneji goes to the hotel where Devine is living and manages to trick his way into his hotel room despite the FBI posted outside. Soneji ties Devine up in the bathtub and demands to know where the ransom money is. After threats of death, Devine reveals the whereabouts of the money. In the meantime, Cross wakes in the islands, unhappy about the situation that is unfolding around him. Cross and Jezzie travel to their isolated island for some solitary time together. Once there, Cross tells Jezzie that he knows about her connection to the kidnapping. Jezzie slowly begins to tell Cross how Devine and his partner suspected Soneji was up to something with the Goldberg boy so they began following him. When they realized after the kidnapping that Soneji was the...