Summary

Chapter 42 – Burnette is accepted for training as a special operations officer in a unit called Delta Force. After that training is complete, he joins Chambers and The Friends of Golf on another beautiful golf course. This time, the group is joined by Colonel Vasich, a Croatian with ties to Steven Chambers. Burnette realizes that there’s really nothing different between the two worlds, militaries, and missions – “the fate of societies left in the hands of a few men playing a round of golf, a few men drinking chai in caves, hatching both sides of the same eternal plot, reversible good versus reversible evil, and God’s way both ways …”

Chapter 43 – Near the end of his training, Burnette undergoes a series of challenging, threatening psychological tests. At the end, he’s thrown off-center by a patronizing question about his father, but manages...