Moishe & Eli in the news: Sinister hooded assassins, armed with Israeli military equipment wend their way through the crowd to the prophets. Broadcast of assassins being slain on approach, live from the Wailing Wall. M & E still proselytize immenent return of Christ the Messiah.
Hattie in New York: Despite initial misgivings, Buck agrees to introduce her to Carpathia. Carpathia gives Hattie his card, which Buck examines. The card gives Carpathia’s address as the Plaza! Has a handwritten number – a secret/private line at the Secretary General’s office in the U.N.! Buck realizes he has an inside scoop on Carpathia’s plan.
The guy briefly introduced in Chapter Sixteen, who dies in a ferry accident in Chapter Seventeen: Widow suspects unnatural causes. Reaches out to Buck & Steve for answers.
Ray and Chloe: still talking about Hattie and the adultery that didn’t happen. Waiting to meet Ms. Durham in the Pan Con club at the New York airport.
Steve Planck: spills to Buck about the Botswanan Secretary-General’s plan to step down and return to his country with the Israeli secret formula for desert florafication.
"the idea being that apocalyptic fiction is an extrapolation toward possible tomorrows -- an inversion of Candide's "best of all possible worlds" -- thinking of those tourist photo-ops with the cutout faces, envisioning yourself in a dystopian future...."
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