Chapter 20 Summary

Ducane has returned to his home from an evening with Octavian. He thinks that he should be writing to Jessica to suggest a time to meet or drafting an interim report on what he's found about Radeechy. All attempts to find Helen of Troy have so far failed. Ducane's search of Radeechy's house has yielded nothing. He has found no evidence of magic or of the events that McGrath talked about. He thinks that Radeechy must have destroyed all evidence before he killed himself. Ducane wants to put off talking to Biranne, feeling that it is probably his last card. However, he just can't see Biranne having killed Radeechy. Before approaching Biranne, Ducane wants to have more information and he wants to surprise him.

Fivey announces that there is a man named McGrath downstairs to see Ducane. McGrath says that he has told...