Chapters 68-77 Summary

In part four, chapter 68, the three women continue to sit in the gloomy weather at the murder scene. Claire's autopsy, in chapter 69, reveals that Jill also died of ricin poisoning.

Danko returns to visit Malcolm in chapter 70. Danko emphasizes his philosophy that "there is always another soldier." When Malcolm mentions the G-8, Danko encourages him to broaden his scope. Malcolm continues tormenting Michelle. He withholds her asthma inhaler for some time, and then threatens to hide ricin in it after she uses it.

In chapter 72, the cops at Berkley call Boxer with a possible lead. They link a radical named Sam Hardaway with Professor Lemouz. In the following two chapters, Lemouz offers little help to the police, but does describe the Hayward Massacre in Chicago in the early part of the 1900s that resulted in the death of August Spies.

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