The Fourth Veil (pgs. 120-138) Summary

It is August and Ellen Cherry is in New York outside her apartment at the Ansonia Hotel waiting for a limousine to take her to work. She tells Raoul, the hotel doorman who is physically attracted to her, that she works in "Jerusalem." Raoul tries to understand what that means, and remembers that Ellen Cherry is an artist and alone since her husband left her a couple of months ago.

It turns out that Ellen Cherry is going to the grand opening of Isaac and Ishmael's, a restaurant that was firebombed two weeks earlier. Several groups had taken responsibility for the bombing, but the police suspect the Third Temple Platoon, Inc., a coalition of ultra orthodox Jews and evangelical Christians. According to police, one of the group's principal spokesmen is Buddy Winkler of Colonial Pines...