Part IV, Chapters 29-30 Summary

Chapter 29 is called "The Truth." Jack goes to Helsinki and finds Ritva and Hannele, the two women he remembers were students of his father's and who had his mother give them tattoos. He learns from them that Alice had tried to get at William by sleeping with them, but it didn't work. They had stayed together. They show Jack a photograph of his father, the first he has ever seen.

Chapter 30 is called "The Deal." Jack goes to Amsterdam and connects with Els, the prostitute he remembers as a child, and the local police officer who had registered Jack's mother as a prostitute. He meets with Femke, who is not a prostitute, as he had recalled, but a lawyer who negotiated a deal between Alice and William that if Alice would take Jack away and stop her...