Chapter 31-32 Summary

Thorpe calls Kimberly to confirm that she will be attending Van Dorn's 4th of July party that evening at Glen Cove. Kimberly wakes up Abrams, who slept on her couch, and he leaves for home to change for the morning's run with Kimberly. First, though, he checks in with Spinelli, who fills him in on Thorpe's wife's boating accident seven years earlier, and the appearance of two more dead bodies: one, the actor who doubled as Carbury, distracting the team sent to protect the Englishman, and also the bartender from the University Club with whom Peter Thorpe has such a rapport.

Thorpe is at that moment forming a new kind of rapport with Nicholas West, who is strapped down to Thorpe's interrogation table, connected to electrodes, a polygraph, and a voice stress analyzer. Thorpe shocks West whenever he lies, and Eva...