Chapter 47-50 Summary

Kalin returns to Androv and reports that Abrams has escaped. Androv berates Kalin, then introduces him to Henry Kimberly and announces that Peter Thorpe will soon be joining the group. Henry Kimberly is uneasy, but does not seem particularly attached to either of his daughters. Even when Androv reveals that everyone at Van Dorn's has been poisoned, Kimberly expresses no preference for or against saving Katherine. Thorpe arrives and tells Androv that Nicholas West is dead. Thorpe and Henry Kimberly discuss Katherine while waiting for a Russian security attaché to arrive with Moscow's message about the night. Next door, Abrams tells Katherine Kimberly that her father is alive.

Chapter 47-50 Analysis

Henry Kimberly is in many ways a ghost. He is totally unattached to the only people who connect him to reality and humanity. Although his detachment springs naturally from his...