“If you want to call it that,” said Nemo. He grabbed Patton by the wrist and yanked her away from Ruthie so hard that she fell backward onto the ground.

“Now get in the driver’s seat,” said Nemo, taking a step toward Ruthie, “and if I say go, you slam that thing in gear and drive . . . ten or twelve feet should do it.”

“But I couldn’t . . .” said Ruthie.

“Listen,” said Nemo, “I’m not going to ask again. Patton here knows what I’m capable of, and I’m sure you’re not the only person in the world who knows where to find an Enigma machine. Now get . . . in . . . the . . . car.”

“You’d better do what he says,” said Patton. “I’m so sorry, Ruthie.”

Ruthie staggered forward, breaking into sobs as she crossed the barn and slid into the driver’s seat.

“Now,” said Nemo, turning to Erich. “Let’s have a little chat and see if we can keep our codebreaker over there from going for a drive.”

“What do you mean ‘it’s not entirely true that we don’t have the money’?” said Eva Klein.

“I mean that Ingrid’s plan to raise money by sending books to people is actually working,” said Gottfried.

“I never understood how that would work,” said Dietrich. “Those books never really belonged to—what did Ingrid call them?”

“Displaced persons,” said Ingrid.

“Right. So how do we make money stealing old books out of libraries and mailing them to random people?”

“The people are not random,” said Ingrid. “I always find someone with a family member who has . . . spent time as a guest of the Reich and I always match the book to the career of that family member.”

“But still,” said Dietrich. “That doesn’t generate income.”

“It’s beginning to generate publicity and good will,” said Gottfried, “and it generates letters of thanks and, with the help of our press releases, it generates stories in newspapers and magazines.”

“None of which will pay for security personnel, transportation, or storage,” said Eva.

“Yes,” said Gottfried, “but once we had all that I set up a FundThis page. It’s a website that allows people to make donations to nonprofit ventures. You enter the information about your organization and what it does, provide links to press coverage to prove you’re legitimate, and then set a fundraising goal and length for your campaign. Because they want every project to work on equal footing, and because they want to invest the money during the length of your campaign, you can’t monitor your results in real time. You have to wait until the campaign is over and then you find out how much you raised and who your donors were. I set a goal of a hundred thousand euros and a schedule of thirty days. The campaign ended ten minutes ago.”

“And how much did we make?” said Eva.

“Two hundred and thirty-seven thousand euros,” said Gottfried.