Chapter 11-14 Summary

Abrams investigates the University club and bribes an employee to let him into Carbury's room. After finding nothing unusual, Abrams learns that Carbury has stored a briefcase in the club's safe. Abrams fills in the other two detectives, and then departs for the firm's town home to dress for the party that evening. When he arrives, he meets Claudia, a sexually magnetic Romanian political refugee, and shares a drink with Tom and Jane Grenville. They discuss the firm and their suspicion that the Russians are planning an attack, and then depart for the party.

Kimberly, meanwhile, arrives at Thorpe's suite in the Lombardy Hotel. The suite is not only Thorpe's residence but also a CIA safe house. She tells him about her day, including Carbury's visit and the journal's existence. Abrams calls to fill her in, and she begins to prepare...