Part I, The Prosperteer: Chapters 14 - 17 Summary

The FBI's Emmett is upset at not being given full disclosure about the situation with Jersey Colony, but he does give the report on the dead bodies to the President. The beets found by the coroner in Dade County are actually from borscht paste. Through a defector from the Soviet space program, they have established identities of the three bodies found on the blimp as Russian Cosmonauts. What they cannot reconcile is why the cosmonauts died in space and how they came to be aboard Raymond LeBaron's blimp dressed like the missing Americans. The President refuses to give Emmett any more information, despite the evidence that Raymond LeBaron might have been abducted by the Cubans. The link between the Selenos lunar probe disasters and Jersey Colony troubles the President. He has Ira Hagen...