Chapter 7 Summary and Analysis

Og had been away for two weeks on the final promotional tour for his book and returned to his office to find a manila envelope waiting. On the envelope was a message from Simon that sounded to Og like a goodbye. Og immediately called his secretary into the office and demanded to know when the package had come. No one seemed to know. Og rushed out of his office and went to Simon's. When the door opened, instead of Simon it was a young mother with two children. Og assumed she was one of the people Simon was trying to help and asked for Simon. The woman claimed to have never heard of Simon and insisted that she had lived in that apartment for over four years. Everything inside the apartment was different. When the woman closed the door, Og studied...