Summary

Chapter 1 – Victor and Martha use a car provided by Underground Airlines to travel south to retrieve the package Kevin left behind. Traveling as a black man and white woman in the southern states attracts attention to Victor and Martha. In fact, in the Hard Four states, it is illegal for a black person to travel without a white companion. They check into a hotel and Victor explains how he will be paying Martha the money she needs in return for smuggling him into the Hard Four. She makes one further request: that Victor tell her his real name. He tells her his name “Brother.” Martha then repairs Victor’s wound from the earlier shooting of Kevin – Victor reveals that he was shot in the shoulder during the shooting – and asks him if he had ever entered any of the Hard...