The horrid Fransau has been dispatched by Alarm's skates, saving the kitchen crew from cold-blooded murder ... more or less. There is still that body ...
London and Washington, Berlin and Russia are in the past. America is a vast country of promise and challenge. In fact, Ivan and Valery don't even need to reach their destination before challenge finds them...
While Ivan researches and writes his essays on the monstrosity of Czarist Russia, Valery, at the embassy, begins to hear of an investigation that could prove their undoing...
A time of turmoil, a time of intrigue; the Czar is corrupt, and the winds of change are moving. Was Ivan a Karamazov any longer, or had he become an instrument of Fate? Valery Asimov, his only friend, follows Ivan on this post-Dostoyevskian trail across a strange continent ...
Deep beneath the Michigan landscape, the salt mines remain cool and clean ... but Emma worries about teleporting into them -- the maps are none too accurate ...
Diego and Andre and Shakespeare are crazier than Henry the half-bug, and Simpson was crazier than them; Maria was crazier than Simpson with dynamite -- but who's crazier than all of them combined?
Emma has her plane reservation ready, her traveling case in hand, and she's eager to get back to what she thinks of as normal. Something else may have other ideas ...
