Chapter 3 Summary

Case, Molly and Armitage travel to several cities, including Amsterdam and Paris, where they make contacts and perform some business tasks. Molly buys Case a gift, a nine-pointed shuriken. They subsequently travel to BAMA, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis, the location for most of the remainder of the novel.

Case and Molly check into a nameless hotel and have sex. Armitage comes to gather them and tells them that a team is coming to secure their room from possible surveillance devices. Armitage then tells Case that during the medical procedures to reconstruct his ability, fifteen toxin sacs were bonded into Case's arteries. The sacs gradually dissolve, and will eventually release the same mycotoxin that destroyed Case's ability to enter cyberspace. Armitage says that if Case completes the mission, he will tell him how to eliminate the toxin sacs from his system. Molly was apparently...