Summary

Chapter 22 begins Part Two of the novel, entitled “Pink Gin at the Normandie,” with a description of the fallout following Alistair Hughes’s death. The police investigated the incident as a hit-and-run, and the official story from MI6 was that Hughes died in a traffic accident. Gabriel’s team headed home while Gabriel himself remained behind to investigate whether Hughes’s death really was an accident. He eventually determined that he himself may have somehow been to blame for Hughes’s death, and thus calls one of his contacts in the Swiss Intelligence Office, Christoph Bittel.

In Chapter 23, Gabriel and Bittel met and began to discuss a recently foiled attempt at a terrorist attack in Zurich, which Bittel was able to stop because of Gabriel’s actions in the previous novel. The conversation turned to Hughes’s death, and Gabriel asked if...