Summary

It is empty and Barber gets a license number off the plate. Barber notifies Duffy about the car and has him run the license number. Duffy agrees to drive by the house and see if he can scare the person off so there will be no police report taken.

Analysis

With Part 3 of the novel, Jacob’s trial begins. Note Barber’s foreshadowing that he has never considered the possibility that they will lose in court. This seems to be building up to a losing of the case with the remainder of the novel dealing with the fallout of Jacob’s guilty verdict. Klein immediately convinces the judge to keep any genetic tendencies to violence in Barber’s family out of the trial. Even when Logiudice is still presenting against the motion, the judge rules that no mention of genetics will be...