Chapters 12-13 Summary

Urpi describes Yu's analysis as obscure and metaphorical, too beautiful to deal with murder. In addition to two brothers and a foreigner, all marked for death, there is a virginal woman involved. With his apartment still being watched, Paul drives to Milan, whose airport is less likely to be watched than Rome's. In Orvieto, he mails the accumulated documentation to himself in Washington, DC. Nguyên Kim is waiting for him, carrying a warning from the Truong toc that Paul will never find traces of Truong toc in this mystery and will have to hide Molly for the rest of her life. She is the target because Paul is not vulnerable to fear but is to guilt. Paul flies to the outskirts of Elisabethville via Khartoum, Nairobi, Salisbury, and Lusaka.

Armed with a .22, Paul meets Nsango after dark in the quarter...