Section 8 Summary

"The Fork"

The quote at the beginning of this section is from the Bishop. It indicates that an individual must always ensure that there are alternatives to each choice.

March 1973. As Catherine travels through the city to meet Lily, she reflects on events since she left Nim's. These include Nim providing her with a potentially protective contact in Algeria, her telling told Nim she would help Llewellyn's client find the piece of the Montglane Service (even though she has no intention of doing so), there being no mention of the discovery of Saul's body, and there being no mention of Fiske being murdered.

When she meets Lily, Lily introduces her to Mordecai, a mathematician and chess master who has coached Lily in several tournaments and who has, he says, also played with Solarin. During their conversation several other pieces of information come into...