Part 2: Chapters 53, 54, 55 and 56 Summary

In New York, Wolf walks on Manhattan's East Side, thinking of the world leaders with whom he's dealing as predictable, pathetic weaklings. He returns to his penthouse apartment, one of several he owns around the world and calls a senior agent from the New York FBI office. She tells him everything the Bureau knows about him and what they're doing to find him. He screams, "This is what I'm paying you for? I should kill you instead." Then he laughs and says it's a joke, but warns her to stay away from bridges.

Bill Capistran has been hired by the Weasel to blow up the 59th Street Bridge, also called the Queensboro Bridge. He and two other men in white painters' overalls are amazed at how easy it is to plant the charges; there is virtually no security. They...