Al and the check-shirt.

Josie and a vodka.

Meeting Fuzzy.

The doctor is in.

Mustang on a sunny day.

Al Hershey admires his car.

July 1992

The nightmare returns.

The 4th of July at Geoff’s and the band plays into the night.

The ‘Great Game’ begins with a trip on the yacht.

Mailbox 16448 and Greek food.

Meg finds a stranger in the house and we learn that Geoff is very particular about his tea.

Welcome to San Francisco and the Half Moon Bay.

Three months later, broke and in Berlin, Karl is summoned to Nuremberg for some terrible news.

In a hot hotel room, with no air conditioning to rescue him from the heat, Karl settles on the bed to review the inventory booklet.

Karl meets with the elusive Herr Brandt. "At last, with a deep breath, he squared his shoulders and pressed the bell. It was eleven o'clock exactly."

Fast-forward to March 1992. "In the dusty morning sunshine, as his taxi labored through rush-hour fumes and ill temper, Karl Heinz Fiedler eased his broad frame forward, away from the clinging leather seat and stared at the letter, trying once more to convince himself that it was genuine…"

The story begins in January 1493. The amber trader kneels in a deep burgundy robe, praying for safe travel.