“You son of a bitch,” shouted Bailey, staggering backward across the room and stepping on Patton’s map.

“You guys want to calm the fuck down,” said Patton. “It’s kind of important what I’m doing here.”

But Thomas just said, “Fuck” again, this time fear creeping into his voice.

“What the hell?” said Patton, looking up from the map at Thomas and Bailey plastered against the wall as far away from the boy as they could get. The man with the knife in his knee had passed out and the room was quiet for a moment during a lull in the fighting outside. Thomas and Bailey had gone pale, and Patton followed their gazes across the room to the boy whose jacket now hung loosely from one arm. You didn’t have to be Army intelligence to see that he wore a suicide vest.

Jean had gone through a gamut of emotions on the ride back into Munich. She had felt anger as she left the memorial behind, the tears on her cheeks no great surprise to the driver. Then, as the camp disappeared behind them, she calmed into a deep sadness. As they eased back into the crowded streets on the north side of Munich she could not subdue a genuine curiosity. What game was Ingrid Weiss playing? Why had she disrespected Jean’s grandfather and the grandparents of others who had received books from Columbia House? When the taxi pulled up in front of an unassuming house, mostly hidden behind a wall on the quiet residential Döbereinerstrasse, she wanted, more than anything, not to punish Ingrid Weiss but just to extract an explanation.

“Here you are,” said the driver in perfect English.

Jean had not paid much attention to their surroundings as they drove through the Obermenzing district, but now she felt something must be wrong. “But this is a house,” she said.

“Yes,” said the driver. “There is the number, and there is the street sign.”

There was no doubt that the sign on the corner read Döbereinerstrasse and that the house number matched that on the Columbia House letterhead.

“When you are ready to go back to the central station,” said the driver, “there is an S-Bahn station right around the corner where you can get a train.”