Part 2, Chapters 19-20 Summary

December is a month of anniversaries. Mam Agnes and Jackson will be married for 42 years this December. Silas will be fifty. Alec and Silas are out for a drink, the afternoon that Mam Agnes and Jackson are having their party. Alec flirts with the waitress. He tells Silas that the women have been calling each other about Michael and Silas. Alec tells Silas that Michael has become involved with "bad people" and that he's been talking to Imam Ismail. Alec has heard that they are involved with the Muslim vigilantes. He has learned these things through his connections at the National Intelligence Service. Silas knows that they told Alec so that Alec would tell him about Michael's activities.

Silas tells Alec that he had applied for an ambassador's post in France but that he was turned down. He senses...