Book 3, Chapters 11-13 Summary

Dov settles in the Old City and as a former ghetto rat, swiftly masters the city's layout and steals to keep himself alive and in art books and supplies, with which he occupies his time waiting for the Maccabees to make contact. He cannot get Karen out of his mind and sketches her from memory, but he fails to capture her beauty adequately. His loneliness grows so intense that he considers returning to Gad Dafna, but he resolves to let her get over him. Maccabees knock on his door and take him, blindfolded, to their headquarters, where Akiva and Ben Moshe welcome him and assign him forgery duties. Dov receives the nickname "Little Giora" after his Hebrew hero, and he is promised, if he behaves, to be allowed to go on some missions.

Meanwhile, in the Officers' Club, Caldwell...