The Mountain, Chapter 6 Summary

At the beginning of the second section, James flies to Jordan to meet Frank Volterra. On the first leg of his flight, the man in the seat next to him suddenly dies as they pass over the desert. When he arrives in Amman, James buys a map of the country to find the names of towns that Owen has mentioned to him.

James meets Volterra in an Indian restaurant. The director has been making regular trips to Wadi Rum to look for clues in the most recent ritual murder. He is sick and tired of doing the films people expect him to do. He wants to go to the desert and the mountains and chronicle this strange cult. Unfortunately, local authorities don't want Volterra snooping around, and his translator Salim has been useless. He thinks he has found a...