Summary

The story opens with the Prologue, May 22, 1950. A man named Harry Gold was rushing around his bedroom in Philadelphia. He was still in his pajamas and was trying to destroy papers that hold evidence of his crimes. A few minutes later, Federal Bureau of Investigations agents Scott Miller and Richard Brennan arrived. The FBI had already questioned Gold and he knew they were coming. Gold was a chemist and he allowed the men into his room where they began to search. They found some items, including a map of Santa Fe, New Mexico, with a spot by the Castillo Street Bridge marked with an X. He later realized he could have explained away the map but at the moment he slumped down and offered to tell his full story.

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