Chapter 43 Summary

Three days after the verdict, Fitch returns home to Washington. Later he would meet up with Vandemeer and Jankle and tell them every sorry part of his deal with Marlee. He has also conferred with some ruthless New York lawyers on how best to attack the verdict. Easter had disappeared right away, Herrera still stands by the fact that he did not read the article in Mogul, and Herman Grimes was happy to release his medical records, showing that he had not suffered a heart attack at all, but that his coffee tasted a bit funny before he collapsed. Cable is going to file a motion to request permission to interview the jurors. However, Fitch would not tell them about the Marlee deal.

Six weeks after Fitch left Biloxi, Marlee drops in on him again, surprising him as he eats his dinner in...