Chapter 13 Summary

Eva confesses that she has been spying on Burnham. They narrowly escape from the apartment when two agents posing as gas inspectors try to arrest them. They go to the YMCA, where the squash organizer, Hal, hides them in his secret room in the basement. Eva stays there while Burnham goes to the White House. He steals the tapes that Epstein has secretly been making of telephone conversations. When he returns to the YMCA, he sends Hal to give Epstein one of the tapes as proof that Burnham has the other tapes.

Chapter 13 Analysis

Burnham's experience in espionage is very limited, yet he is more successful than Pym. His raid on Epstein's office is well planned, which is in stark contrast to the manner in which he has lived his life up to this point. Burnham's long-standing indifference to his own fate has...